Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a central part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides users with virtual servers—referred to as instances—that can be scaled up or down according to computing requirements. EC2 allows for the deployment of applications without the need for upfront hardware investment, offering various configurations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity.
Brand Authority Index (BAI): 98/100
Archetype: Challenger
Category: Cloud Computing
Part of: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Last analyzed: April 11, 2026
Founded: 2006
Headquarters: Seattle, WA, USA