Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web service offered by Amazon that allows customers/business to run applications in the Amazon computing environment. “Ec2” is a commercial web service which lets customers to rent computing resources from Amazon computing cloud.
Instead of managing their own servers, companies can increase capacity or add new web features by purchasing more gigabytes through EC2. Server outsourcing through Amazon EC2 will poteltially save companies hardware costs and time.