diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e532812bb40c..ab30936cc866 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Main (unreleased)
 
 - Added links between compatible components in the documentation to make it
   easier to discover them. (@thampiotr)
+  
+- Allow defining `HTTPClientConfig` for `discovery.ec2`. (@cmbrad)
 
 ### Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/component/discovery/aws/ec2.go b/component/discovery/aws/ec2.go
index 566527d2f67e..7672165e05e0 100644
--- a/component/discovery/aws/ec2.go
+++ b/component/discovery/aws/ec2.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/ec2metadata"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
 	"github.com/grafana/agent/component"
+	"github.com/grafana/agent/component/common/config"
 	"github.com/grafana/agent/component/discovery"
 	"github.com/grafana/river/rivertypes"
 	promcfg "github.com/prometheus/common/config"
@@ -42,18 +43,21 @@ type EC2Arguments struct {
 	RefreshInterval time.Duration     `river:"refresh_interval,attr,optional"`
 	Port            int               `river:"port,attr,optional"`
 	Filters         []*EC2Filter      `river:"filter,block,optional"`
+
+	HTTPClientConfig config.HTTPClientConfig `river:",squash"`
 }
 
 func (args EC2Arguments) Convert() *promaws.EC2SDConfig {
 	cfg := &promaws.EC2SDConfig{
-		Endpoint:        args.Endpoint,
-		Region:          args.Region,
-		AccessKey:       args.AccessKey,
-		SecretKey:       promcfg.Secret(args.SecretKey),
-		Profile:         args.Profile,
-		RoleARN:         args.RoleARN,
-		RefreshInterval: model.Duration(args.RefreshInterval),
-		Port:            args.Port,
+		Endpoint:         args.Endpoint,
+		Region:           args.Region,
+		AccessKey:        args.AccessKey,
+		SecretKey:        promcfg.Secret(args.SecretKey),
+		Profile:          args.Profile,
+		RoleARN:          args.RoleARN,
+		RefreshInterval:  model.Duration(args.RefreshInterval),
+		Port:             args.Port,
+		HTTPClientConfig: *args.HTTPClientConfig.Convert(),
 	}
 	for _, f := range args.Filters {
 		cfg.Filters = append(cfg.Filters, &promaws.EC2Filter{
diff --git a/component/discovery/aws/ec2_test.go b/component/discovery/aws/ec2_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7696d750a4ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/component/discovery/aws/ec2_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package aws
+
+import (
+	"net/url"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/grafana/agent/component/common/config"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"gotest.tools/assert"
+)
+
+func TestConvert(t *testing.T) {
+	// parse example proxy
+	u, err := url.Parse("http://example:8080")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	httpClientConfig := config.DefaultHTTPClientConfig
+	httpClientConfig.ProxyURL = config.URL{URL: u}
+
+	// example configuration
+	riverArgs := EC2Arguments{
+		Region:           "us-east-1",
+		HTTPClientConfig: httpClientConfig,
+	}
+
+	// ensure values are set
+	promArgs := riverArgs.Convert()
+	assert.Equal(t, "us-east-1", promArgs.Region)
+	assert.Equal(t, "http://example:8080", promArgs.HTTPClientConfig.ProxyURL.String())
+}
diff --git a/docs/sources/flow/reference/components/discovery.ec2.md b/docs/sources/flow/reference/components/discovery.ec2.md
index 98f8b033b873..e2964d2df0a3 100644
--- a/docs/sources/flow/reference/components/discovery.ec2.md
+++ b/docs/sources/flow/reference/components/discovery.ec2.md
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ Name | Type | Description | Default | Required
 `role_arn` | `string` | AWS Role Amazon Resource Name (ARN), an alternative to using AWS API keys. | | no
 `refresh_interval` | `string` | Refresh interval to re-read the instance list. | 60s | no
 `port` | `int` | The port to scrape metrics from. If using the public IP address, this must instead be specified in the relabeling rule. | 80 | no
+`proxy_url` | `string` | HTTP proxy to proxy requests through. | | no
+`follow_redirects` | `bool` | Whether redirects returned by the server should be followed. | `true` | no
+`enable_http2` | `bool` | Whether HTTP2 is supported for requests. | `true` | no
 
 ## Blocks