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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Overview

What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and…

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Pricing

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Data Transfer

$0.00 - $0.09

Cloud
per GB

On-Demand

$0.0042 - $6.528

Cloud
per Hour

EBS-Optimized Instances

$0.005

Cloud
per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Training @ VICTORYSOST

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Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet

8.9
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.

Key Features

  • Bare metal instances

  • Amazon EC2 Fleet (fleet management)

  • Pause and resume instances

  • GPU compute instances

  • GPU graphics instances

  • High I/O instances

  • Dense HDD storage instances

  • Optimized CPU configurations

  • Flexible storage options

  • Pay-as-you-go pricing

  • Place instances in multiple locations

  • Elastic IP addresses

  • Auto-scale capacity up or down

  • HPC clusters

  • Elastic Fabric Adapter

  • Available on AWS PrivateLink

  • Amazon Time Sync Service

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.

Reviewers rate Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Continuous Evolving Cloud

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 08, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
8 years of experience
  • Instance type
  • Storage options
  • Purchase model
  • Security
Cons
  • Allow Spot instances to auto switch to on-demand when the capacity is need, instead of sudden interruption

Honest Review - AWS EC2

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 30, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
3 years of experience
  • Huge Diverse range of machine shapes are available which cater to our demand.
  • Ability to combine the machines and integrate them with any other service in AWS (Ex: RDS, S3)
  • Handling performance and scalability using auto-scaling, ELB configuration and high performance machine shapes.
Cons
  • More options and affordability for GPU machines.
  • Spot / Reserved Instances plans can be better
  • More flexibility in AWS CLI to handle ec2 machines.

userec2.aws.

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 27, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
4 years of experience
  • Easy to interact with instances via ssh.
  • Many different options and configurations to choose from.
  • Widespread compatibility with other cloud services especially AWS.
Cons
  • Interaction via amazon's console.
  • Complex setup/configurations to get it running.
  • Operating system versioning is done manually.

Easy and flexible deployment solutions.

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 27, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
12 years of experience
  • Changing instance sizes.
  • Fast creation of new instances.
  • Automated backups.
Cons
  • Shutting down memory locked servers can be slow.
  • Upgrades between different architectures is very tedious.

Excellent platform for scalable on-demand compute servers

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 09, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
7 years of experience
  • Customising virtual machines with your own scripts and packages.
  • Auto scaling the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances based on events and thresholds
  • Creating multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in a single go with launch templates
Cons
  • Portal to check all Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances from different regions at single place
  • Configuration page for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances can be made simpler. Make required fields as mandatory.
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