Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is a core component of Amazon Web Services (AWS), allowing users to rent virtual machines (EC2 instances) on which they can run their own applications.
With EC2, users have complete control over their virtual computing environment, including the operating system, applications, and network configurations. EC2 instances can be launched in minutes and can be scaled up or down easily as needed to handle changes in workload.
