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AWS Batch vs Amazon EC2 comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Amazon EC2 boosts ROI by reducing server costs, enhancing flexibility, and improving efficiency despite higher initial expenses.
Sentiment score
6.7
AWS Batch offers cost-effective, flexible solutions for variable workloads, with up to 70% savings during peak demand periods.
This cost factor has an impact on the project, giving us more possibilities to configure other services and greater financial freedom.
Data Engineer I at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
I would say I have saved more than a week with Amazon EC2 compared to my previous on-premises setup.
Architect at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Amazon EC2 support is highly rated for responsiveness, though premium support is costly and free support has mixed reviews.
Sentiment score
6.9
AWS Batch support is praised for efficiency with faster response for higher tiers, and users value self-manageable issues.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate Amazon EC2's customer support a 10.
DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would rate technical support from Amazon a 10, as we have on-prem AWS experts.
Consultant at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate the AWS support team a seven.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Principal Global Services
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Amazon EC2 is scalable, adaptable for peak traffic with autoscaling, efficiently managing workloads, and widely used across organizations.
Sentiment score
8.0
AWS Batch efficiently scales resources for concurrent tasks, managing cloud compute operations with flexible CPU and RAM allocation.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Amazon EC2 is highly stable and reliable, offering 24/7 availability, auto scaling, and minimal downtime despite occasional latency issues.
Sentiment score
7.8
AWS Batch is reliable and stable, though minor issues with job terminations and redundancy arise during outages.
It is somewhat more reliable compared to Azure.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Principal Global Services
Amazon EC2 is stable and more economical.
Data Engineer I at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Amazon EC2 requires better pricing, cost management, scalability, support, integration, automation, user interfaces, and documentation for user satisfaction.
AWS Batch requires improved visibility, debugging, setup ease, pricing, integration, error handling, documentation, and user-friendly interfaces for beginners.
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.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think improvements can be made to Amazon EC2 by increasing the memory, offering more instance types, and including GPUs as mentioned in the keynote.
Architect at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It would be great if Amazon EC2 could provide monitoring for RAM memory utilization in the same way they do for CPU and network.
DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Amazon EC2's flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing is versatile but costly, requiring careful cost management and monitoring to optimize expenses.
AWS Batch is cost-effective, with charges primarily for compute time, enabling efficient budget management using spot instances.
I found it very cheap and a fair price according to what we need.
Data Engineer I at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The licensing fees for Amazon EC2 are affordable, especially for lower tiers where there are fewer requirements or where the load is very low for product development.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Principal Global Services
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Amazon EC2 is that it is pretty simple and straightforward.
DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Amazon EC2 provides scalable computing with auto-scaling, strong integration, security, and pay-as-you-go pricing for diverse workloads.
AWS Batch offers scalable job scheduling, cost optimization, and integration with AWS, supporting containerized workloads and flexible task management.
The main benefits Amazon EC2 provides for me as an end user are cost savings, as they are more OpEx costs rather than CapEx for us.
Consultant at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
With the cloud, deployment is easy, and within a minute, we can deploy the server and give it to the developers so they can work on it right away after deployment.
Architect at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Amazon EC2 offers many different types of features, including highly scalable on-demand virtual servers, deep customizations, cost controls, different models, and different families we can use.
DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon EC2
Ranking in Compute Service
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
AWS Batch
Ranking in Compute Service
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Compute Service category, the mindshare of Amazon EC2 is 13.9%, up from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Batch is 7.8%, down from 15.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Compute Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon EC213.9%
AWS Batch7.8%
Other78.3%
Compute Service
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2879559 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer I at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Flexible virtual machines have accelerated data experimentation and reduced project costs
The best features that Amazon EC2 offers are the availability and the freedom to work with whatever I want. I can configure simpler machines to conduct quicker tests, or I can configure more robust machines according to what the project needs, including machines with a visual operating system. Regarding this flexibility, it impacts my day-to-day work and the projects I develop in terms of speed. If I want to test a project that has JavaScript with Angular and Node.js and I need to install MongoDB, I can configure a machine quickly, tailored for that, and get the data via API from somewhere. If I had to do this on my company machine, I would have to open a ticket with IT and explain the project. Something I could do in one day through my own processes would take two weeks through the company's procedures. Amazon EC2 has had a positive impact on my organization because its configuration offers more options than other clouds. Especially in the IoT area, we prefer to use AWS rather than Microsoft because of the robustness and security, whether in a gateway that we configure, in a firewall, or elsewhere. We adapted better to Amazon EC2.
AK
Software Engineering Manager – Digital Production Optimization at Yara International ASA
Flexibility in planning and scheduling with containerized workload management has significantly improved computational efficiency
AWS Batch is highly flexible. It allows users to plan, schedule, and compute on containerized workloads. In previous roles, I utilized it for diverse simulations, including on-demand and scheduled computations. It facilitates creating clusters tailored to specific needs, such as memory-centric or CPU-centric workloads, and supports scaling operations massively, like running one hundred thousand Docker containers simultaneously.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise31
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EC2?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was fine. I found it very cheap and a fair price according to what we need.
What needs improvement with Amazon EC2?
I cannot think of a way for Amazon EC2 to be improved.
What is your primary use case for Amazon EC2?
I have been working as a data engineer for four years now. In my first year, I worked at a logistics company where I focused exclusively on data. At Energisa, I work in the innovation area, where I...
Which is better, AWS Lambda or Batch?
AWS Lambda is a serverless solution. It doesn’t require any infrastructure, which allows for cost savings. There is no setup process to deal with, as the entire solution is in the cloud. If you use...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Batch?
Regarding pricing for AWS Batch, we don't have to pay much cost. It is mostly useful for the cost-saving purpose. You will have to pay only for the compute time.
What needs improvement with AWS Batch?
AWS Batch has several improvement areas. AWS could provide better visibility into job execution and failure, as well as easier debugging and logging, which is much needed. AWS could also provide si...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2
Amazon Batch
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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