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Jenna
Jenna

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What are ec2 instances in AWS?

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Lee

If you are familiar with VMware ESX or Fusion, or hyperV or even VirtualBox then it's the same thing but just on a huge scale.

ec2 instances are basically virtual machines running in AWS's public cloud platform. AWS use Xen and KVM as their hypervisors depending on the ec2 instance in use.