Comparison Amazon EC2 vs Apache

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as Amazon EC2, is a platform provided by Amazon for scalable computing. It provides an infrastructure for secure computing and optimized performance. Hence, it allows users to build and develop applications for the cloud and other platforms. Amazon EC2 is recognized for its global infrastructure. It is available for a wide range of operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Amazon Linux 2, Enterprise Linux and Debian and it also comes with optimized CPU configurations. As part of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it offers free AWS training to users for the development of cloud skills.

Apache provides a web server software provided by Apache Software Foundation. It is open-source software that can be downloaded for free. Its range of features includes Unix threading, a new build system, multiprotocol support, and support for non-unix platforms along with IPv6 support. It also comes with Apache filtering, Multilanguage error responses, native windows NT Unicode support along with a simple configuration. Apache server is recognized for its flexibility. It also has an active community and gets frequent updates. It provides extensive documentation to its users as well. Apache server is used by well-known companies such as IBM, eBay, Adobe, LinkedIn, Facebook and GTMetrix.