--- title: "Amazon EC2 Compute - Air Market" description: "You run virtual machines on AWS and something is off: capacity errors, a surprise bill for CPU credits, an instance stuck starting, or SSH refusing you. This covers choosing instance types, scaling g…" canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/aws-compute" --- [Air Market](/) / [IT & Ops](/category/ops) / Amazon EC2 Compute Skill by [Amazon Web Services](/@aws) # Amazon EC2 Compute For the EC2 fleet question you cannot answer from the console ## What this does You run virtual machines on AWS and something is off: capacity errors, a surprise bill for CPU credits, an instance stuck starting, or SSH refusing you. This covers choosing instance types, scaling groups, images, and fleet-wide operations, plus the common ways all of it goes wrong. For launching one secure instance, other skills fit better. ### Top 3 things it does for you - Pick the right instance type for the workload - Work out why an instance will not come up or connect - Set up scaling that replaces bad instances ## Information **Amazon EC2 Compute at a glance** | | | | --- | --- | | Kind | Skill | | Publisher | [Amazon Web Services](/@aws) | | Category | [IT & Ops](/category/ops) | | Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents | | Version | 1 | | Size | 53 KB | | Licence | Apache-2.0 | | Repository | [aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws](https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/b33847dd218c6ceef176cd5efdcfff50560faf7d/skills/core-skills/aws-compute) | | GitHub stars | 2,420 (as of Nov 2026) | | Installs | 6,232, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) | ## Security report **Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Amazon EC2 Compute and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**. **What Amazon EC2 Compute's check was run against** | | | | --- | --- | | Commit | b33847dd218c6ceef176cd5efdcfff50560faf7d | | Content hash | a3b08ae09ea77cb41fb1b9ce2da2a23984e261c580378b08f9fc31c479d4e9da | | Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/blob/b33847dd218c6ceef176cd5efdcfff50560faf7d/skills/core-skills/aws-compute/SKILL.md) | A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned. [Read the full security report for Amazon EC2 Compute](/security/aws-compute) ## About Amazon EC2 Compute This is for provisioning, scaling and operating Amazon EC2 workloads. It spans instance-type selection - Graviton and Arm64, burstable T credits, GPU, instance store against EBS - launch templates, Auto Scaling groups with their scaling policies, instance refresh, mixed instances, Spot, warm pools and lifecycle hooks, plus IMDSv2, placement groups, Elastic IPs and AMI lifecycle. It also covers Systems Manager fleet operations: Session Manager, Run Command and Patch Manager. The troubleshooting side is the familiar list - InsufficientInstanceCapacity, CPU-credit and surplus charges, IMDSv2 401s, instances stuck in Pending:Wait, an ASG that will not replace unhealthy instances, status-check failures, SSH refused or timed out, and instances that never show up as SSM managed nodes. It is deliberately scoped. For a single secure instance launch, instance profiles, or Image Builder, there are separate skills. It does not cover Lambda, ECS or Fargate, EKS, VPC and load balancer design, or writing IAM policies. ## What's inside - SKILL.md - instructions - references/ami-management.md - reference - references/auto-scaling.md - reference - references/instance-selection.md - reference - references/provisioning.md - reference - references/systems-manager.md - reference - references/troubleshooting.md - reference ## Questions ### Is Amazon EC2 Compute safe to install? AIR scanned this exact version of Amazon EC2 Compute and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit b33847dd218c, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/aws-compute. ### How do I install Amazon EC2 Compute? Open https://airmarket.ai/app/aws-compute on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/b33847dd218c6ceef176cd5efdcfff50560faf7d/skills/core-skills/aws-compute. Install from that link, not the branch. ## Related on Air Market - [More IT & Ops listings](/category/ops) - [Everything by Amazon Web Services](/@aws) --- Canonical URL: