Amazon EC2 Reviews - Hosted Services

Listed below are the types of Hosted Services Amazon EC2 currently provides. Amazon EC2 Hosted Services are ranked by their avg. monthly cost, uptime, support and features - then scored by averaging all user reviews for the given service.

Amazon EC2 provides:
  • Cloud Hosting
 Service.

Avg. Monthly Cost
Expensive
Service Uptime
Poor
Tech Support
Very Poor
Features Set
Very Poor
Overall Rating
Poor - 2 of 5 Stars
5
reviews
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Cloud HostingWrite Review | Read Reviews (5)
Avg. Monthly Cost: Expensive
Service Uptime: Poor
Tech Support: Very Poor
Features Set: Very Poor
Average Cloud Hosting Rating: Poor - 2 of 5 Stars
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Kyliptix's Average Rating: Outstanding - 5 of 5 Stars
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Host Demon's Average Rating: Outstanding - 5 of 5 Stars
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Inbox Solutions's Avg. Monthly Cost: Very Cheap
Inbox Solutions's Average Rating: Outstanding - 5 of 5 Stars
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Lunar Pages's Avg. Monthly Cost: Average
Lunar Pages's Average Rating: Outstanding - 5 of 5 Stars
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Easy Office Phone's Avg. Monthly Cost: Average
Easy Office Phone's Average Rating: Average - 3 of 5 Stars
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Rackspace's Avg. Monthly Cost: Expensive
Rackspace's Average Rating: Average - 3 of 5 Stars
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Hosted Fusion's Avg. Monthly Cost: Average
Hosted Fusion's Average Rating: Average - 3 of 5 Stars
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Packet 8's Avg. Monthly Cost: Expensive
Packet 8's Average Rating: Very Poor - 1 of 5 Stars
eSales TrackVisit Website | Read Reviews (16)
eSales Track's Avg. Monthly Cost: Very Cheap
eSales Track's Average Rating: Great - 4 of 5 Stars
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Recent eSales Track Reviews

Cloud Hosting Review - By: Tiamo

09/25/10

Pros:

Strong/Fast Network to major places. Extensive offering on VPN, cloud. Lots of API and development tools and they offer a cloud loadbalancer/firewall. The Firewall inbound only. But you get your own private cloud segmented from everyone else.

Cons:

NO support. Dont count on them for anything. If instance fail, you're out of luck. LoadBalancer premetive, restricted timeout sessions, instances slow, i/o disk 20-50MB/s, buggy AMI on Windows. IPs are dynamic even ELIP lost when instance stopped.

Other Thoughts:

They do have good basic product, but needs the following improvement:
1. MUCH better support. Even Premium support is useless. They can only send you articles, and check their own back-end system. They won't touch the instance AT ALL. You are on your own using their network.

Only use them if you don't care about losing your instance (e.g. true full cluster with no single point of failure host).

They are way behind other cloud hosting providers. They have multiple datacenters which is good, but nothing further.

Poor - 2 of 5 Stars
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Cloud Hosting Review - By: Yuriy Pogosov

07/03/10

Pros:

Good control panel, more then 25 characters

Cons:

No support at all AND THE WORST CUSTOMER ATTITUDE I'VE SEEN ON THE NET. They can just shut you down without any notice, and you will be writing them letters for a couple of days to get the reason why did they do so

Other Thoughts:

Ok there wasn't a hosting from the 10 i worked with that've driven me into state of maddened rage except for Amazon.
2 hours after i registered and started my instance they just closed my account without any mail or other way of notification. After I've spent 3 hours checking my huge passwords list in case i entered another and forgot about it and after i've returned and changed my pass via password reminder feature i've sent them an e-mail with the question WTF it happening to my account I can't log in. And that's all in a middle of site transfer. Imagine, i got an answer _the next day_ stating that for some reason my cc couldn't be billed and that my account is suspended untill I provide billing statements via fax. After i did this they still didn't give me access to my account despite I offered to change a credit card to another, and requested MY BANK TO CALL THEM to USA from London so that they can process a f***ing 10 dollar payment..
I've written them a huge letter with a lot of bad words. and cancelled my account

Outstanding - 5 of 5 Stars
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Cloud Hosting Review - By: Dave Wilson

05/11/10

Pros:

Relatively inexpensive and fairly reliable.

Cons:

Very difficult to use interface. Can't/Won't tell you where data is located.

Poor - 2 of 5 Stars
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Cloud Hosting Review - By: Charles

07/28/09

Pros:

The product which started it all

Cons:

Still a complex interface which needs a programmer to understand. No support.

Average - 3 of 5 Stars
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Cloud Hosting Review - By: Sim City

02/17/09

Pros:

proven service that everyone else like mosso models after

Cons:

None listed.

Other Thoughts:

great reliability

Outstanding - 5 of 5 Stars
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