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."The most valuable feature of Amazon EC2 is its ability to spin a new virtual machine in a few seconds."
"What I found most valuable in Amazon EC2 is that you only pay for what you use, versus an on-premise deployment that requires you to pay for the cost of the server. When it's on-premise, you'll need to meet more specifications and requirements, and the purchasing process even takes time. As Amazon EC2 is cloud-based, you'll only pay when you use the service."
"I like EC2 because of its simple workload and the ability to configure VPCs and security groups."
"I believe that cloud solutions are better than physical servers."
"The setup is straightforward and it takes around an hour."
"EC2 has the typical advantages of using the cloud. It's easy to provision and set up."
"The Key Management Service (KMS) feature is very helpful for security. It encrypts the data that is being saved. Cloud storage is also very helpful, and it could be AWS S3, which a lot of people use."
"This is a user-friendly solution."
"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."
"Lambda has improved our organization by making it possible to transform data."
"The ease and speed of developing the services using any available language is the most valuable feature."
"I think the most valuable feature is the agility of the solution."
"It enables the launch of thousands of instances simultaneously,"
"The tool scales automatically based on the number of incoming requests."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Lambda makes the administration of all our services related to Amazon really easy."
"They have to provide clarity on pricing. It's not transparent."
"Regional acceleration could improve. If I am hosting a website and I want the experience to be faster they should have this feature to allow for increased speeds."
"The only issue with EC2 is that it makes it difficult to install an LLS certificate on your WordPress website that you have deployed inside that virtual machine. That becomes complicated."
"I would like to see as much automation for data validation as possible in the future."
"EC2 could be improved with easier migration."
"The monitoring part could be improved. When we're building and configuring things or doing database replication, EC2's monitoring could provide more information. It's hard to find the information I need in the graphs they provide."
"We have had some downtime using the solution."
"Amazon EC2 could improve the console view. The ability to see the console view directly would be helpful, similar to what VMware has. Additionally, when the system is rebooting we are able to see a screenshot of the UI, but it would be a lot better if we could interact directly with the console level."
"AWS Lambda could be improved with better stability."
"If you're running a new application with a significant load, you need to be prepared for potential bottlenecks."
"The feature to attach external storage, such as an S3 or elastic storage, must be added to AWS Lambda. This is its area for improvement."
"The price in general could always be better."
"Its performance can be improved. There should also be more dynamic security permissions."
"AWS Lambda's GUI could be improved with a twist or tweak in its look and feel to make it more impressive."
"AWS Lambda could be improved by increasing the size of the payload. Also, sometimes Lambda doesn't implement well for bigger solutions."
"The running time of AWS Lambda runs fine. It takes around five minutes but it would be great if that time could be extended."
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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