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Definition

Elastic Compute Cloud - Amazon's service for renting virtual computers in the cloud. Like renting a computer by the hour instead of buying one.

Real-World Example

A startup uses EC2 instances to run their website, paying only for the computing power they actually use.

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Cloud Provider Equivalencies

Virtual server instances for running applications in the cloud.

AWS
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
AZ
Virtual Machines
GCP
Compute Engine
OCI
Compute Instances

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