Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
| Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | |
|---|---|
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | |
| Original author(s) | Amazon |
| Developer(s) | Amazon |
| Initial release | August 25, 2006 (public beta) |
| Operating system | |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Virtual private server |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | aws |
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a part of Amazon's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), that allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 encourages scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to configure a virtual machine, which Amazon calls an "instance", containing any software desired. A user can create, launch, and terminate server-instances as needed, paying by the second for active servers – hence the term "elastic". EC2 provides users with control over the geographical location of instances that allows for latency optimization and high levels of redundancy.[2] In November 2010, Amazon switched its own retail website platform to EC2 and AWS.[3]
- ^ Jeff Barr (30 November 2020). "New – Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps". AWS News Blog. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ LaMonica, Martin (March 27, 2008). "Amazon Web Services adds 'resiliency' to EC2 compute service". CNET. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
- ^ AWS Cloud Tour 2011 | Australia: Event Highlights (video).