User Reviews of Amazon EC2

Updated January 2026

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Amazon EC2 review

BaqirSajjad
BaqirSajjad
AWS Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Elasticity and auto scaling enhance performance and cost efficiency
Amazon EC2 features that I have found the most valuable and useful include elasticity and scalability, a variety of instance types, pay-as-you-go pricing, security, isolation, AMIs, integration with other services, Spot Instances, and high availability of reliability, user data, and EC2 metadata. These include Amazon EC2 images, image...
Amazon EC2 review

Shakir Bhatt
Shakir Bhatt
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Flexibility empowers personalized management with minimal challenges
Initially, I was not sure how things were working. After I became familiar with it, I didn't feel any issues with Amazon EC2. However, one concern remains. I have heard from multiple people that if you have an Amazon EC2 instance running and you stop it, the billing continues unless you terminate the Amazon EC2 instance. This is an area...

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