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  "name": "Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)",
  "description": "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers by providing a simple web service interface that allows for full control of computing resources.",
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  "baiScore": 98,
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    {
      "slug": "digitalocean-droppets",
      "name": "Digitalocean Droppets"
    },
    {
      "slug": "google-compute-engine-gce",
      "name": "Google Compute Engine Gce"
    },
    {
      "slug": "microsoft-azure-virtual-machines",
      "name": "Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines"
    },
    {
      "slug": "oracle-cloud-infrastructure-oci",
      "name": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)"
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    "name": "Amazon Web Services (AWS)"
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  "updatedAt": "2026-04-10T17:56:25.346+00:00",
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    "founded": "2006",
    "headquarters": "Seattle, Washington, USA",
    "pricing_model": "Usage-based (Pay-as-you-go, with options for Spot and Reserved savings)",
    "core_products": "Virtual Instances (On-Demand, Spot, Reserved, Dedicated), Amazon Machine Images (AMI), Elastic Block Store (EBS) integration.",
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    "funding_stage": "Publicly Traded (Amazon.com, Inc.)",
    "subcategory": "Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)"
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