AWS EC2

Default enterprise VM substrate. Agents should wrap it — humans shouldn't live in the console.

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Default enterprise VM substrate. Agents should wrap it — humans shouldn't live in the console. Strengths: Infinite instance types and regions; Enterprise controls; Spot for cheap batch.

Overall

8.0

curated_estimate

confidence: high · as of 2026-09-14

Capability fit

9.2

Price / performance

7.0

Latency / reliability

9.5

Developer & agent DX

6.5

Privacy / data retention

8.8

Lock-in risk (higher = worse)

7.5

Maturity / track record

9.9

Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.

Sources: Amazon EC2: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Default enterprise VM substrate. Agents should wrap it — humans shouldn't live in the console.

Strengths

· Infinite instance types and regions
· Enterprise controls
· Spot for cheap batch

Weaknesses

· Complexity tax
· Easy to misconfigure security/cost
· DX raw vs PaaS

Pricing notes

Broadest instance catalog; Spot/Savings Plans; everything else in AWS orbits EC2.

Regions: globalLast reviewed: 2026-09-14Status: active

Sourced pricing

Contract status unavailable · no_sourced_price. Single normalized $/1M: null. Machine list: /api/pricing?provider=aws-ec2

No sourced SKU row. Notes above stay prose.

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