Amazon Web Services is a juggernaut in the industry, and the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offers impressive cloud-based compute capacity. The company provides a scalable infrastructure on demand and has a remarkable history of reliability. EC2 has an SLA commitment of 99.99% availability for each region, making it a highly sought-after solution for powering high-availability enterprise applications.
With AWS EC2, you can choose between machines powered by Intel, AMD, and Arm processors. Additionally, AWS EC2 is the only cloud provider that supports macOS.
AWS EC2 offers a comprehensive range of services at various price points, allowing customers to reduce costs (sometimes by as much as 90%) for fault-tolerant workloads. In addition, the company boasts multiple security and networking enhancements and offers multiple purchasing models as well.
Notable companies relying on AWS EC2 include FINRA, Cathay Pacific, Netflix, GE Appliances, Airbnb, and Expedia.