Amazon EC2
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
7warn against
Nov 17, 2025first mention
Sep 17, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache.”
“We had no problems with EC2 VMs.”
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“we switched from fargate to EC2 auto scaling group so we could run a custom AMI”
switched from AWS Fargateon “Deploying Temporal on AWS ECS with Terraform”
Caveats and dissent
“It was impossible, actually impossible, to limit or cap my cloud expenses in any billing cycle.”
educator with homelabon “AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION”
“ec2 is heavy in terms of cost”
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“And this right here is why I use GCP.”
“AWS had an outage that blocked all EC2 operations just a few months ago”
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Also written as AWS EC2. Data: amazon-ec2.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 20
“Is EC2 real-world enough?”
“All my personal services are running on one EC2 instance”
“It was impossible, actually impossible, to limit or cap my cloud expenses in any billing cycle.”
“ec2 is heavy in terms of cost”
“For work, EC2.”
“Hetzner VPS prices are still a fraction of comparable AWS EC2 instances”
“I focused on maxing out the standard infrastructure tiers”
“Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache.”
“And this right here is why I use GCP.”
“Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2”
“OVH VPS is not the same as say, AWS EC2”
“AWS had an outage that blocked all EC2 operations just a few months ago”
“basically a 16% markup by today's exchange rate”
“EC2 instances can hibernate, too.”
“So AWS EC2 represented a 56x cost factor.”
“I use Prompt, Ever Terminal, Whisper, EC2 and Claude Code.”
“EC2 was twice the price for an on-demand instance”
“Not sure using EC2/AWS/Amazon is a good example here”
“We had no problems with EC2 VMs.”
“we switched from fargate to EC2 auto scaling group so we could run a custom AMI”