Amazon Web Services (AWS) are growing in popularity because companies are generating ever increasing amounts of data every day. Cloud services provide many useful options to store data for data backup and recovery. What is EC2 and S3 in AWS? Amazon EC2 and S3 are among the most popular cloud services offered by Amazon given their high reliability and availability for cloud storage. This blog post explains how Amazon EC2 vs S3 can be used for data backup and restore, yet it doesn’t offer a full comparison of these two services.