This document discusses compute services and the various compute options available on AWS. It defines compute as calculating or processing data. Compute services like OpenStack Compute are used to host and manage cloud computing systems. Major AWS compute services include EC2 for secure and scalable compute capacity, Lambda for serverless code execution, Batch for batch job processing, and Elastic Beanstalk for deploying web applications without managing infrastructure. The document also discusses options like Lightsail for simple workloads, ECS and EKS for containerized applications, and Fargate for serverless containers.