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Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 is AWS’s elastic compute service: on-demand and reserved virtual machines across a global fleet.
At a glance
Amazon EC2 is AWS’s elastic compute service: on-demand and reserved virtual machines across a global fleet.
Catalog categories: compute.
Catalogued capability areas: - Provisioning virtual machines/instances - Autoscaling and load balancing - Block storage and networking
This summary reflects the catalog record, not a complete product specification. Verify intended users, end-to-end workflows, supported platforms, edge cases, data handling, and constraints against cited sources. Treat capability labels as research leads until that verification is complete.
- Provisioning virtual machines/instances
- Autoscaling and load balancing
- Block storage and networking
Open-source alternative
4 candidate projects in the landscape. A candidate may cover all, part, or none of what Amazon EC2 does — read the coverage and gaps below.
OpenStack
Apache-2.0Self-hosted IaaS with compute (Nova) and networking (Neutron).
The main open IaaS.
Apache CloudStack
Apache-2.0Turnkey VM provisioning and management.
Simpler to operate.
Proxmox VE
AGPL-3.0Virtualisation platform for VMs and containers.
Single-cluster scale.
OpenNebula
Apache-2.0Private-cloud manager.
Lightweight.
Coverage and gaps
Alternative coverage
Available. Self-hosted IaaS platforms cover the compute function.
The gap
Global capacity, hardware diversity and AWS’s managed service ecosystem are not reproducible.
Build this product with your agent
This Markdown file is the coding-agent skill for Amazon EC2. Give it to your agent in your project; it guides research, reuse decisions, implementation and verification.
- agent-kit.mdDownloadable Markdown skill with product-specific instructions for your coding agent.available
- skill.mdGenerated copy of the same product skill — rae amazon-ec2 --out ./amazon-ec2-agent.in kit
- mcp.jsonOptional MCP server config — rae amazon-ec2 --out ./amazon-ec2-agent.in kit
- Product workspaceOptional starting workspace for your agent — rae build product amazon-ec2 --out ./amazon-ec2.
- ChoosePick the product you want to build.
- ReviewAsk your agent to check the product skill, evidence and alternatives.
- BuildGive the skill to your coding agent and build in your own project.
- VerifyRun the checks for your implementation and review the result.
Evidence
Sources
- https://www.openstack.org/
- https://cloudstack.apache.org/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/openstack/comments/yhh84x/is_openstack_still_the_best_open_source_option/
Provenance
- Catalog record — catalog/products.jsonl
- Research dossier — research/companies/amazon_aws/products/amazon-ec2.md
- REA web-surface report — catalog/rea/amazon_aws/amazon-ec2.md
- Open-source skill file — catalog/skills/amazon_aws/amazon-ec2.md
Next step
Give the Amazon EC2 skill to your coding agent in your project. Ask it to evaluate OpenStack ↗ against your needs, reuse what fits, then follow the skill's build and verification instructions.
Give the product skill to your coding agent in the project where you want to build. Optional starter workspace: rae build product amazon-ec2 --out ./amazon-ec2. CLI reference.