Compute for any workload

Instances, containers, and serverless computing

Millions of organizations run diverse workloads on the AWS compute platform. As the longest-running Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services, AWS has been recognized for 12 consecutive years, and is helping organizations like Lyft, Netflix, Coca-Cola, and Moderna lower infrastructure costs and accelerate innovation on the world's most reliable, secure, and capable cloud. 

Right compute for your workloads

AWS offers the broadest and deepest functionality for compute. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offers granular control for managing your infrastructure with the choice of processors, storage, and networking. AWS container services offer the best choice and flexibility of services to run your containers. AWS Lambda enables you to run code in response to events from more than 150 natively integrated AWS and software as a service (SaaS) sources.

From idea to market, faster

AWS provides multiple ways to build, deploy, and get to market quickly on the latest technology. The AWS Nitro System, exclusive to AWS, enables us to rapidly innovate, which means you’re always building on the latest technologies. Get started quickly with Amazon Lightsail, a virtual private server for a low, predictable price, and serverless computing with AWS Lambda.

Security, built in

AWS offers significantly more security, compliance, and governance services, and key features than the next largest cloud provider. With the AWS Nitro System, security is built in at the chip level to continuously monitor, protect, and verify the instance hardware and minimize potential attack surfaces. AWS also supports more security standards and certifications than any other cloud provider, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-2, and NIST800-171.

Flexibility to optimize costs

With AWS compute you pay only for the instance or resource you need, for as long as you use it, without requiring long-term contracts or complex licensing. We offer automated recommendations to help you improve price performance as well as tools and innovative pricing models to further optimize costs. With EC2 Spot Instances you can save up to 90 percent over on-demand pricing for instances, or with Savings Plans you can save up to 72 percent across instances, containers, and serverless on a single bill.

Compute where you need it

AWS is the only cloud provider that distributes a consistent set of services from the cloud, to your data center, to the edge. AWS Outposts extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to any facility. Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere let you run containers on premises using the same APIs and cluster management that you use in the cloud. AWS Wavelength delivers ultra-low latency for 5G-enabled applications through telecommunications companies around the world.

700+

instances for virtually every business need

80%

of all containerized applications running in the cloud run on AWS*

84%

of all Kubernetes workloads in the cloud run on AWS*

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Availability Zones that are multiple, physically separated, and isolated

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AWS Regions with lower latency, high throughput, and high redundancy

* https://nucleusresearch.com/research/single/guidebook-containers-and-kubernetes-on-aws/

AWS is the longest-running Gartner Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) Magic Quadrant Leader

Gartner has recognized AWS as a Magic Quadrant Leader for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services (CIPS) for the 12th straight year. AWS placed highest in the Ability to Execute axis of measurement among the eight vendors named in the report.

You can read the full Gartner report here.

See why Gartner named AWS a CIPS Leader again

AWS compute services

Category
Service description
AWS service
Instances (virtual machines)
Secure and resizable compute capacity (virtual servers) in the cloud
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Secure and resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Launch applications when needed without upfront commitments. 

Run fault-tolerant workloads for up to 90% off
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Amazon EC2 Spot

Take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices.

Automatically add or remove compute capacity to meet changes in demand
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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Maintain application availability and automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions you define.

Easy-to-use cloud platform that offers you everything you need to build an application or website
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Amazon Lightsail

Virtual servers, storage, databases, and networking for a low, predictable price.

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Fully managed batch processing at any scale
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AWS Batch

Run batch jobs at any scale.

Containers
Highly secure, reliable, and scalable way to run containers
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Run and manage Docker containers.

Run containers on customer-managed infrastructure
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Amazon ECS Anywhere

 

Easily store, manage, and deploy container images
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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

Store and retrieve Docker images.

Fully managed Kubernetes service
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Run managed Kubernetes on AWS.

EKS
Create and operate Kubernetes clusters on your own infrastructure
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Amazon EKS Anywhere

 

Serverless compute for containers
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AWS Fargate

Run containers without managing servers or clusters.

Build and run containerized applications on a fully managed service
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AWS App Runner

Production web applications at scale made easy for developers.

Serverless
Run code without thinking about servers. Pay only for the compute time you consume
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AWS Lambda

Run code without provisioning or managing servers.

Edge and hybrid
Run AWS infrastructure and services on premises for a truly consistent hybrid experience
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AWS Outposts

Fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience.

Outposts
Collect and process data in rugged or disconnected edge environments
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AWS Snow Family

The Snow Family, comprised of AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball, offers a number of physical devices and capacity points with built-in computing capabilities.

Snowball Edge
Deliver ultra-low latency application for 5G devices
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AWS Wavelength

Build applications that deliver single-digit millisecond latencies to mobile devices and end-users

Wavelength
Preferred service for all vSphere workloads to rapidly extend and migrate to the cloud
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VMware Cloud on AWS

Build a hybrid cloud without custom hardware.

VMWare
Run latency sensitive applications closer to end-users
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AWS Local Zones

Easily run latency-sensitive portions of applications local to end-users and resources in a specific geography, delivering single-digit millisecond latency.

Local Zones
Cost and capacity management
Flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on AWS compute usage
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AWS Savings Plan

Flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on AWS compute usage

Savings Plan
Recommends optimal AWS compute resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance
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AWS Compute Optimizer

Identify optimal AWS compute resources.

Easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Run and manage web apps.

Build and maintain secure Linux or Windows Server images
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EC2 Image Builder

Build and maintain secure images.

Automatically distribute incoming application traffic across multiple targets
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Elastic Load Balancing

Achieve fault tolerance for any application by ensuring scalability, performance, and security.

AWS Compute services

Category Service description AWS service
Instances (Virtual machines) Secure and resizable compute capacity (virtual servers) in the cloud Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Run fault-tolerant workload for up to 90% off
 Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
Automatically add or remove compute capacity to meet changes in demand Amazon EC2 Autoscaling
Easy-to-use cloud platform that offers you everything you need to build an application or website Amazon Lightsail
Fully managed batch processing at any scale AWS Batch
Containers Highly secure, reliable, and scalable way to run containers Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Run containers on customer-managed infrastructure Amazon ECS Anywhere
Easily store, manage, and deploy container images Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Fully managed Kubernetes service Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Create and operate Kubernetes clusters on your own infrastructure Amazon EKS Anywhere
Serverless compute for containers AWS Fargate
Build and run containerized applications on a fully managed service AWS App Runner
Serverless Run code without thinking about servers. Pay only for the compute time you consume AWS Lambda
Edge and hybrid
 Run AWS infrastructure and services on premises for a truly consistent hybrid experience AWS Outposts
Physical edge computing and storage devices for rugged or disconnected environments AWS Snow Family
Delivery ultra-low latency application for 5G devices AWS Wavelength
Preferred service for all vSphere workloads to rapidly extend and migrate to the cloud. VMware Cloud on AWS
Run latency sensitive applications closer to end-users AWS Local Zones
Cost and capacity management Flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on AWS compute usage AWS Savings Plan
Recommends optimal AWS Compute resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance AWS Compute Optimizer
Easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Build and maintain secure Linux or Windows Server images EC2 Image Builder
Automatically distribute incoming application traffic across multiple targets Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

The AWS Nitro System

Regardless if you are migrating apps from on premises or building them natively in the cloud, you can benefit from Amazon EC2 instances built on the AWS Nitro System. The AWS Nitro System enables AWS to innovate faster, further reducing cost for our customers, and deliver added benefits like increased security and new instance types. AWS has completely re-imagined our virtualization infrastructure. Traditionally, hypervisors protect the physical hardware and BIOS, virtualize the CPU, storage, and networking, and provide a rich set of management capabilities. With the Nitro System, we are able to break apart those functions, offload them to dedicated hardware and software, and reduce our costs by delivering all of the resources of a server to customers.

The Nitro System is comprised of three main parts: The Nitro Cards are a family of cards that offloads and accelerates I/O for functions including Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Amazon EC2 instance storage, ultimately increasing overall system performance. The Nitro Security Chip enables the most secure cloud platform with a minimized attack surface as virtualization and security functions are offloaded to dedicated hardware and software. Additionally, a locked-down security model prohibits all administrative access, including those of Amazon employees, eliminating the possibility of human error and tampering. The Nitro Hypervisor is a lightweight hypervisor that manages memory and CPU allocation and delivers performance that is indistinguishable from bare metal.

Customers

  • Expedia

  • Expedia Group is all in on AWS, with plans to migrate 80 percent of its mission-critical apps from its on-premises data centers to the cloud in the next two to three years. By using AWS, Expedia Group has become more resilient. Expedia Group’s developers have been able to innovate faster while saving the company millions of dollars.

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  • Lyft
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    Lyft uses AWS to move faster as a company and manage its exponential growth, leveraging AWS products to support more than 100 microservices that enhance every element of its customers’ experience.

  • Moderna
  • Scientist Working on Computer In Modern LaboratoryNOTE TO INSPECTOR: all graps, dna models, charts are made by me
    Moderna

    "With AWS, our researchers have the ability to quickly design and execute research experiments and rapidly uncover new insights to get potentially life-saving treatments into production faster... AWS's breadth and depth of services are supporting our mission to create a new generation of medicines for patients and are instrumental in our quest to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 and other life-threatening diseases."

    Stéphane Bancel
    Moderna, CEO
  • iRobot
  • An abundance of tubes used for oil and gas industry placed in factory warehouse
    iRobot

    The AWS serverless architecture and the ease of use of the AWS services inside it free up developer time to produce business value.

  • Redfin
  • Redfin

    By using AWS, Redfin can innovate quickly and cost effectively with a small IT staff while managing billions of property records.

  • Volkswagen
  • Volkswagen

    "Management was easy—it was very simple to upload a machine to the platform and simply adjust sizing according to need afterwards"

    Sadao Matsuda
    SAP IT Manager, VWCO

Easy to migrate and build apps

AWS provides multiple ways to get you started quickly and easily. Amazon Lightsail offers a simple cloud platform at a low, predictable price. AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services to help front-end web and mobile developers build scalable full stack applications. The AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. There are migration tools as well as AWS Managed Services, AWS Professional Services, AWS Training and Certification, and AWS Support to assist along the way. We have the largest and most vibrant partner community including system integrators, ISVs, and SaaS partners.