750 hours per month for 12 months with the AWS Free Tier

Amazon EC2

Secure and resizable compute capacity for virtually any workload

Why Amazon EC2?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 750 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload. We are the first major cloud provider that supports Intel, AMD, and Arm processors, the only cloud with on-demand EC2 Mac instances, and the only cloud with 400 Gbps Ethernet networking. We offer the best price performance for machine learning training, as well as the lowest cost per inference instances in the cloud. More SAP, high performance computing (HPC), ML, and Windows workloads run on AWS than any other cloud.

Benefits of Amazon EC2

SLA commitment

Access reliable, scalable infrastructure on demand. Scale capacity within minutes with SLA commitment of 99.99% availability.

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AWS Nitro System

Provide secure compute for your applications. Security is built into the foundation of Amazon EC2 with the AWS Nitro System.

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Optimize performance and cost

Optimize performance and cost with flexible options like AWS Graviton-based instances, Amazon EC2 Spot instances, and AWS Savings Plans.

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AWS Migration Tools

Migrate and build apps with ease using AWS Migration Tools, AWS Managed Services, or Amazon Lightsail. Learn how AWS can help.

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re:Invent 2023 Compute Sessions Now On-Demand

Catch up with compute highlights from 2023 re:Invent.

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Use cases

Run cloud-native and enterprise applications

Amazon EC2 delivers secure, reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective compute infrastructure to meet demanding business needs.

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Scale for HPC applications

Access the on-demand infrastructure and capacity you need to run HPC applications faster and cost-effectively.

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Develop for Apple platforms

Build, test, and sign on-demand macOS workloads. Access environments in minutes, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing.

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Train and deploy ML applications

Amazon EC2 delivers the broadest choice of compute, networking (up to 400 Gbps), and storage services purpose-built to optimize price performance for ML projects.

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