Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service that provides scalable, on-demand computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. It allows users to launch virtual servers (instances), configure security and networking, and manage storage, enabling flexible and cost-effective infrastructure deployment. EC2 supports a wide range of operating systems, instance types, and pricing models to meet diverse application needs.
Developers should learn and use Amazon EC2 when building scalable web applications, hosting websites, running batch processing jobs, or deploying machine learning models that require elastic compute resources. It is ideal for scenarios where you need to quickly provision virtual machines, handle variable workloads with auto-scaling, or integrate with other AWS services like S3, RDS, and Lambda for a comprehensive cloud solution.