The following are the benefits and drawbacks of Amazon EC2:
Benefits:
- You can provision new servers instantly
- Provides variety of instance types and is ready to launch any OS or software without setup
- You can run servers in multiple regions from a standard EC2 console
- Provides programmatic and API access
- It provides high availability and capacity planning in multiple availability zones, in each region
- You can bid for spot instances at a cheap price for cost savings on scalable workloads
- Long-term pricing is available at discounted rates
- ELB makes load balancing easy to set up
Drawbacks:
- All servers are virtual and large instance types with better provision might encounter performance issues, compared ...
