Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is one of the most popular services on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It offers the following benefits
- Elastic. Amazon EC2 lets you increase or decrease capacity within minutes
- Affordability. Pay only for the compute capacity you consume.
- Security. EC2 instances are located in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and you decide which instances public or private
- Reliability. AWS EC2 instances can be rapidly and predictably commissioned.
- Ease of integration with other AWS services. EC2 easily integrates with AWS S3, RDS, and SQS to provide a complete solution for computing, query processing, and storage across a wide range of applications.
- Flexible cloud hosting services. Multiple instance types, operating systems, and software packages are available to users