EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
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by Virtual machine provisioning and lifecycle managementTeams that need scalable server capacity without owning hardware — from single-instance apps to fleets of thousandsFree tier
On-demand and spot virtual machine instances across 600+ instance types spanning general-purpose, compute-, memory-, storage-, and GPU-optimized families.
Features
Free Tier (12-month + always-free)all plansSavings Plans / Reserved Instancesall plansIAM Roles and Policy Engineall plansMulti-Region and Multi-AZ deploymentsall plansAWS Organizations and SCPsenterprise onlyAWS Control Tower (multi-account governance)enterprise onlyCloudFormation / CDK (IaC)all plansAWS CodePipeline / CodeBuild / CodeDeployall plansBedrock Agents (agentic AI orchestration)paid onlyBedrock Knowledge Bases (RAG)paid onlyLambda@Edge / CloudFront Functionspaid onlyAWS Marketplace (third-party software)all plansCloudWatch Logs Insights (log querying)paid onlyAWS GuardDuty (threat detection)paid onlyAWS Cost Explorer and Budgetsall plans
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