This post we are going to learn about the difference between Amazon EC2 instance and Amazon S3.

EC2 Instance:

Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud), EC2 instance is like remote desktop running on Linux/Window or any other operating system. Also, we can install any software as we required, including the databases.

The EC2 instance system will be up all the time, EC2 instance required username password to access it. Using EC2 you can execute/run your programs (Remote machine).

Amazon S3:

Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service), Amazon S3 has been just a storage service to store and retrieve any volume of data. S3 data are stored in the cloud we can store huge amount of data (Giant hard drive/Remote hard disk).