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 for obtaining and configuring capacity.
Brand Authority Index (BAI): 98/100
Archetype: Challenger
Category: Cloud Computing
Part of: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
https://optimly.ai/brand/aws-ec2-full
Last analyzed: April 10, 2026
Founded: 2006
Headquarters: Seattle, WA