Elastic Compute Cloud 2
/iː-siː-tuː/
n. “A scalable virtual server service provided by Amazon Web Services for cloud computing.”
EC2, short for Elastic Compute Cloud 2, is a core service of Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows users to launch and manage virtual servers, known as instances, in the cloud. EC2 provides flexible computing capacity, enabling organizations to scale up or down based on demand without investing in physical hardware.