# Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Documentation

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity—literally, servers in Amazon's data centers—that you use to build and host your software systems.

## Amazon EC2

- [Amazon EC2 User Guide](/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/): Describes key concepts for Amazon EC2 and provides instructions for how to configure and use Amazon EC2 features.
- [Amazon EC2 Instance Types](/ec2/latest/instancetypes/): Describes the specifications for each instance type available in Amazon EC2.
- [AWS Nitro Enclaves User Guide](/enclaves/latest/user/): Describes key concepts for AWS Nitro Enclaves and provides instructions for using enclaves.
- [AWS Windows AMIs](/ec2/latest/windows-ami-reference/): Describes the specifications and version history for Amazon managed AWS Windows AMIs that are used to launch Amazon EC2 instances.

## Develop for Amazon EC2

- [Amazon EC2 Developer Guide](/ec2/latest/devguide/): Describes the programming interfaces for Amazon EC2 and provides code examples.
- [Amazon EC2 API Reference](/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/): Documents the Amazon EC2 Query API.
- [EC2 Instance Connect API Reference](/ec2-instance-connect/latest/APIReference/): Documents the Amazon EC2 Instance Connect Query API.
- [AWS CLI commands for Amazon EC2](/cli/latest/reference/ec2/): Documents the AWS CLI commands for Amazon EC2 and provides examples.
- [CloudFormation resources for Amazon EC2](/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/AWS_EC2.html): Documents the CloudFormation resources and properties for Amazon EC2.

## Migrate to Amazon EC2

- [VM Import/Export User Guide](/vm-import/latest/userguide/): Import your virtual machine images to Amazon EC2.

## Workloads on Amazon EC2

- [User Guide for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2](/sql-server-ec2/latest/userguide): Provides a conceptual overview with guidance about how to launch and configure Microsoft SQL Server on an Amazon EC2 instance.

## Best Practices

- [Architecture Center: Compute and HPC Best Practices](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/compute-hpc/?docec2_rl1): Browse AWS best practices that can help you leverage our compute services for your high performance computing (HPC), edge computing, and hybrid cloud architectures.

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