Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) EC2 is a virtual server in the AWS Cloud. AWS EC2 is short for AWS Elastic Cloud Compute, For this no upfront investment is needed. You only pay for what you use. EC2 is secure and it is scalable. Features of Amazon EC2 Instances Virtual servers Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) Preconfigured templates for your instances that package the components you need for your server (including the operating system and additional software). Instance types Various configurations of CPU, memory, storage, networking capacity, and graphics hardware for your instances. Key pairs Secure login information for your instances. AWS stores the public key and you store the private key in a secure place. Instance store volumes Storage volumes for temporary data that is deleted when you stop, hibernate, or terminate your instance. Ama...