Amazon EC2

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Scalable, pay-as-you-go compute capacity in the cloud

What is Amazon EC2?

It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Amazon EC2 is a tool in the Cloud Hosting category of a tech stack.

Who is using it?

7273 companies use Amazon EC2 in their tech stacks, including Uber, Airbnb, and Pinterest.

Uber

Airbnb

Pinterest

Netflix

Amazon

Udemy

LaunchDarkly

Instacart

Robinhood

reddit

Twitch

CRED

Why developers like Amazon EC2

Quick and reliable cloud servers
Scalability
Easy management
Low cost
Auto-scaling
Market leader
Backed by amazon
Reliable
Free tier