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Compute Service - Amazon EC2

Secure and resizable compute capacity for virtually any workload

What is Amazon EC2?

✔ Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

✔ Access reliable, scalable infrastructure on demand. Scale capacity within minutes with SLA commitment of 99.99% availability.

✔ Provide secure compute for your applications. Security is built into the foundation of Amazon EC2 with the AWS Nitro System.

✔ Optimize performance and cost with flexible options like AWS Graviton-based instances, Amazon EC2 Spot instances, and AWS Savings Plans.

Use Cases

    Deliver secure, reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective compute infrastructure to meet demanding business needs.

    Access the on-demand infrastructure and capacity you need to run HPC applications faster and cost-effectively.

    Build, test, and sign on-demand macOS workloads. Access environments in minutes, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing.

    Deliver the broadest choice of compute, networking (up to 400 Gbps), and storage services purpose-built to optimize price performance for ML projects.

Why choose Amazon EC2?

instances
750+
Gbps Ethernet networking
400
availability
99.99%

Amazon EC2 on the Free Tier

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Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides sizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Use credits to access features in both Free and Paid plans. Free plan eligible instances include: 

T3.micro, T3.small, T4g.micro, T4g.small, C7i-flex.large, M7i-flex.large

Create a free account to get started with Amazon EC2 on the AWS Free Tier »

Learn More About Amazon EC2

Browse through our collection of videos to learn more about Amazon EC2

Videos

Getting More Out of Amazon EC2 (30:59)

AWS re:Invent 2020: The journey to silicon innovation at AWS (27:04)

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