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Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud for virtually any workload.
Last Modified: August 29, 2025
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Key Features
- Scalable virtual server instances in the AWS cloud.
- Supports multiple instance types for various workloads.
- Pay-as-you-go or reserved pricing options.
- Integrates with storage, networking, and security services.
Common Use Cases
- Hosting scalable web applications
- Running backend services and APIs
- Processing big data workloads
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