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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Documentation

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity—literally, servers in Amazon's data centers—that you use to build and host your software systems.

Amazon EC2

  1. Amazon EC2 User Guide

    Describes key concepts for Amazon EC2 and provides instructions for how to configure and use Amazon EC2 features.

  2. Amazon EC2 Instance Types

    Describes the specifications for each instance type available in Amazon EC2.

  3. AWS Nitro Enclaves User Guide

    Describes key concepts for AWS Nitro Enclaves and provides instructions for using enclaves.

  4. AWS Windows AMIs

    Describes the specifications and version history for Amazon managed AWS Windows AMIs that are used to launch Amazon EC2 instances.

Develop for Amazon EC2

  1. Amazon EC2 Developer Guide

    Describes the programming interfaces for Amazon EC2 and provides code examples.

  2. Amazon EC2 API Reference

    Documents the Amazon EC2 Query API.

  3. EC2 Instance Connect API Reference

    Documents the Amazon EC2 Instance Connect Query API.

  4. AWS CLI commands for Amazon EC2

    Documents the AWS CLI commands for Amazon EC2 and provides examples.

  5. AWS CloudFormation resources for Amazon EC2

    Documents the AWS CloudFormation resources and properties for Amazon EC2.

Migrate to Amazon EC2

  1. VM Import/Export User Guide

    Import your virtual machine images to Amazon EC2.

Workloads on Amazon EC2

  1. User Guide for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2

    Provides a conceptual overview with guidance about how to launch and configure Microsoft SQL Server on an Amazon EC2 instance.

Best Practices

  1. Architecture Center: Compute and HPC Best Practices 

    Browse AWS best practices that can help you leverage our compute services for your high performance computing (HPC), edge computing, and hybrid cloud architectures.
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