Product overview — Cloud Compute
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AWS EC2
General-purpose virtual machines on AWS for teams that need full control over runtime, networking, and scaling patterns.
Sources linked — see verification below.
Freshness & verification
Who is this best for?
This is the fastest way to decide whether AWS EC2 is in the right neighborhood.
Best for
- Teams needing VM-level control and custom runtime requirements
- Organizations aligned to AWS identity/networking/governance
- Workloads that don’t fit serverless/PaaS constraints
- Teams that can standardize images, patching, and scaling practices across services
- Enterprise environments that need IAM, networking, and policy controls to be first-class
Who should avoid
- You want minimal infra ownership and fastest time-to-ship
- You prefer simple, predictable monthly pricing without optimization effort
- You can’t commit to an owner for patching, hardening, and incident response for VM workloads
- Your app is a standard web service that fits a managed platform with fewer moving parts
Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.