We performed a comparison between Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Compute Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."An advantage of Amazon is that it offers a wide range of infrastructure services with an easy way to configure them."
"EC2 provides a lot of flexibility. If you don't want to have a separate on-premise database, you can put it on the cloud with EC2. You can adjust the instance type according to your needs. You select a size and get a certain amount of specific memory, CPUs, etc. You set the redirect limit, and from there, you install the software, database servers, application servers, and whatever you want."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is the computing capacity."
"We don't have to worry about scalability issues or maintenance or security. It's all taken care of."
"Configuration can be changed at any time and it's very scalable."
"The most valuable features are the scalability options, low maintenance, and options to upgrade. AWS support is also pretty good. The generation upgrade is pretty simple and standardized."
"The most valuable feature is EC2 is scalable, so when you want to move to market, you don't need to wait until your provision is fast, you can just go and provision it and then easily install your application."
"We find it easy to scale."
"AWS Lambda is interlinked with CloudWatch. When we have any errors we can directly go there and check the CloudWatch logs. Additionally, we can run it very fast and we can increase the RAM size and other components."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Lambda is that you can trigger and run jobs instantly, and after you complete the job, that function is either destroyed or stopped automatedly."
"It's a fairly easy solution to learn."
"Lambda is the preferred compute option because of on-demand cost. We don't have to provision any hardware beforehand. We don't have to provision the capacity required for the services because it is serverless."
"By using Lambda, we can use Python code and the Boto3 solution."
"The solution integrates well with API gateways and S3 events via its AWS ecosystem."
"Technical support has been great in general."
"Provides a good, easy path from when you're using an AWS cluster."
"Nothing is really missing in terms of features."
"In terms of improvement, they could build some client-side desktop tools that provide easier connectivity to Amazon."
"The solution is pretty expensive."
"We have had some downtime using the solution."
"The availability and response time of the free technical support can be improved."
"The tool’s stability could be better."
"Technical itself could be a bit more helpful, especially when it comes to integration assistance. When we talk to the technical team, often it's some issue with integration and they'll tell us to talk to the other company. Often, the other company will look at everything and not see an issue from their end and then we are at an impasse."
"Currently in the autoscaling process if we have multiple issues we are not able to connect some of the VPC through the SMS."
"If you are setting it up on hybrid solution, there is a lot of work that needs to go in."
"I think that perhaps Lambda could explore its functionality more."
"AWS Lambda's GUI could be improved with a twist or tweak in its look and feel to make it more impressive."
"Security needs to be improved."
"Memory limitation is one of the weaknesses of AWS Lambda and as a result, we have to use several Lambda, instead of just one. Recently, I met with an Amazon employee, who is responsible for Lambda as a product. It appears Amazon has some plans with Lambda, so I don’t have to add something to the additional features."
"There were some timeout issues with AWS Lambda as the options provided didn't suit our business cases."
"Lamba functions have cold-starts that can cause some delay."
"AWS Lambda needs to improve its stability."
Amazon EC2 is ranked 3rd in Compute Service with 60 reviews while AWS Lambda is ranked 1st in Compute Service with 70 reviews. Amazon EC2 is rated 8.6, while AWS Lambda is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon EC2 writes "Easy to scale and valuable features include the security group and key management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Lambda writes "An easily scalable solution with a variety of use cases and valuable event-based triggers". Amazon EC2 is most compared with AWS Fargate, Apache Spark, AWS Batch and Apache NiFi, whereas AWS Lambda is most compared with AWS Batch, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Apache NiFi and Apache Spark. See our AWS Lambda vs. Amazon EC2 report.
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