"yes" . "Active" . . "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)"@en . . . . "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) forms a central part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), by allowing users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 encourages scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to configure a virtual machine, which Amazon calls an \"instance\", containing any software desired."@en . . . . . . .