EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud
AWS Cloud Computing provides more than 200+ various services. EC2 is one of it. It is very nice and most popular service by AWS Cloud.
- It is Virtual Server – also known as “Instance”
- We can start / launch new Server within few minutes (In any Region/AZ)
- 1 Year FREE Tier account – 750 hr / month with Linux OS and t2.micro instance type
- With the help of EC2 service we can quickly launch new VM (Virtual Machine) and for creating new VM we can choose EC2 instance from approximately 350+ various EC2 types
- Linux, Windows, Amazon Linux OS templates readily available, so that we can create new VM within few minutes
Few Key Terms of EC2
1. Instances
2. Instance Type
3. Amazon Machine Image ( AMI )
4. Key Pair
5. Instance Store Volumes
6. EBS Volume
7. Security Groups
8. Elastic IP Address
9. Tags