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EC2-API service overview
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The ec2-api service provides Amazon EC2 API support.

The ec2-api service consists of the following components:

``ec2-api`` service
  Accepts and responds to end user EC2 and VPC API calls.

``ec2-api-metadata`` service
  Provides the OpenStack Metadata API to servers. The metadata is used to
  configure the running servers.