AWS EC2 provides resizable virtual servers in the cloud, offering broad instance type selection for compute, memory, storage, and GPU workloads.
Pricing
$0.01-100+ / hour
Reviews
5,000+
Founded
2006
Team Size
10,001+ employees
Current Deal
750 hours/month free for 12 months
About AWS EC2
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) provides scalable virtual computing capacity. It offers the broadest and deepest compute platform with over 750 instance types spanning processors from Intel, AMD, and AWS Graviton.
EC2 supports on-demand, reserved, spot, and savings plan pricing models. Auto Scaling adjusts capacity automatically based on demand, and Elastic Load Balancing distributes traffic across instances.
The service includes features like dedicated hosts, placement groups, and Nitro-based instances for enhanced security and performance. EBS volumes provide persistent block storage.
EC2 is the foundational compute layer for AWS, powering everything from simple web servers to complex machine learning training clusters.
Pricing
$0.01-100+ / hour
On-Demand: From $0.0058/hour (t4g.nano) to $100+/hour (large GPU instances)
Spot Instances: Up to 90% discount vs on-demand
Reserved: Up to 72% discount with 1 or 3 year commitment
Free Tier: 750 hours/month of t2.micro for 12 months
Case Studies
Notable Customers
- Samsung
- Expedia
- Shell
- BMW