Amazon EC2 Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud: This is a scalable computing facility enabled Virtual Server provided by Amazon, users can configure the Virtual Server for security, data handling and for other causes. Features: Environments called as Instances Pre-configured templates available, pre-configured OS and SW Various configurations of CPU, Memory, Storage and NW capacity for the instances Secure Logins are available using key pair Allows to store the temporary storage as well as persistent storage as Amazon Boos Store (ABS) Volumes. Can configure multiple physical locations for EBS Volumes Firewall configuration is available Static IP is available Can connect to the own network using Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)