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# AWS Compute Services

## What is AWS Compute?

A service that enables to leverage virtual machines on cloud for workloads. This could be for hosting website, running a database, or calculating statistics from a data set.

### Key Compute Options in AWS

* Amazon EC2 - VMs on AWS - **IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)**
* AWS Elastic Beanstalk - For scaling WebApps and services - **PaaS (Platform as a Service)**
* AWS Lambda - Server-less Architecture
* AWS Container Services such as AWS AppRunner, AWS EKS and AWS ECS