Ran EC2 Spot nodes in production EKS clusters for years; volatile but less so than the documentation suggests.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
39% Positive22% Mixed39% Negative
Users mostly praise Amazon EC2 for low cost, especially with spot instances or reserved capacity, and for steady uptime on long-running servers.
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Customer reviews (56)
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Free-tier t2 instance ran fine for five months then started dying, likely from low memory and thrashing, cause still unclear.
Found AWS-native snapshot consistency tricky for SQL Server on EC2 if not set up right, and had a restore fail once.
Ran a single EC2 Spot instance for 14 months without an interruption, while cautioning to plan for the two-minute reclaim warning.
Runs ECS on EC2 with a 36% discount and about 1% of one DevOps engineer's time for maintenance.
Bakes an AMI with Packer and updates containers on EC2 through GitHub Actions and SSM; works fine, used because they need a static IP.
They have run all their personal projects on AWS EC2 for six years and find it cheaper and more reliable than traditional VPS providers.
Runs a Python app on EC2 with simple rsync deploys; instances have had multi-year uptime but can disappear without notice.
A data-enrichment app cost over $2,500 on Lambda versus under $60 on EC2 spot, running untouched on ECS-optimized images.
On EMR task nodes, Savings Plans gave better savings and stability than Spot, whose instances were reclaimed mid-task too often.
Common questions about Amazon EC2
What do customers say about Amazon EC2?
Users mostly praise Amazon EC2 for low cost, especially with spot instances or reserved capacity, and for steady uptime on long-running servers. The main complaints are outages and degraded or restarted instances, and some were caught by unexpected bills from forgotten or free-tier-exceeding instances.
Is Amazon EC2 worth it?
Of the 31 reviews with a clear verdict, 39% are positive, 23% mixed and 39% negative. The praise mentioned most is great value. The most common complaint is outages.
What do people like about Amazon EC2?
The praise reviewers mention most: great value (7 reviews), reliable (6 reviews) and easy to use (2 reviews). For example: An EC2 server doing the same read-and-write job costs less per month than the Lambda function did in one day.
What are the most common complaints about Amazon EC2?
The complaints reviewers mention most: outages (8 reviews), hidden fees (3 reviews) and surprise bill (3 reviews). For example: During the October 2025 AWS incident their EC2 instance unexpectedly restarted in us-east-2 (Ohio), not just us-east-1.
What does the signal score of 61 mean?
It's how well reviewed Amazon EC2 is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Amazon EC2?
Category: Cloud platform.
Where do these Amazon EC2 reviews come from?
56 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.