AWS EC2

AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a foundational service within Amazon Web Services that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It allows users to rent virtual servers, known as instances, which can be configured with various operating systems, storage, and networking options, and…

Key facts

First appeared: 2006
Category: technology
Problem solved: AWS EC2 was created to address the significant challenges businesses faced in provisioning, scaling, and managing computing infrastructure. It eliminated the need for large upfront capital expenditures on hardware, reduced the time required to deploy new servers from weeks to minutes, and enabled dynamic scaling of resources to match fluctuating demand.
Platforms: macOS, Microsoft Windows Server, Linux (multiple distributions)

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Notable users

Expedia
Netflix
NASA
Airbnb
Unilever
Siemens
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