Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides a robust, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution for provisioning virtual machines. EC2 virtual machines comprise hardware and an operating system.

You create an account with Amazon EC2 to gain access to this functionality. You then create preconfigured EC2 virtual machines, or EC2 instances, and install your products on the instances just as you would install on physical machines. The installed products in the virtual environment will operate just as they operate on physical hardware with a few exceptions noted in this appendix.

For information on the operating systems that are supported by your products and by Amazon EC2, see the webMethods and Intelligent Business Operations System Requirements .