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