AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud
What is EC2 (Amazon EC2)?
Amazon EC2 (also called EC2): Amazon Web Services' service for renting virtual servers of many sizes by the hour or second, including instance types with GPUs. Users choose the operating system and software, giving full control over the machine.
Amazon EC2: an example
A team rents a GPU instance for a day to fine-tune a model and shuts it down afterwards to stop charges.
Related terms
More MLOps, LLMOps cloud terms
- Amazon ECR
- Amazon EKS
- Amazon SageMaker
- Argo CD
- Availability zone
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Lambda
- Azure Blob Storage
Where you learn it
Amazon EC2 is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.