What is EC2?

What is EC2 and Why Should You Consider it?

According to the AWS website, the bouquet of featured services includes the following:

• Amazon EC2 — Elastic virtual servers in the cloud
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) — Scalable storage in the cloud
• Amazon Aurora — High-performance managed relational database
• Amazon DynamoDB — Managed NoSQL database
• Amazon RDS — Managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL,Oracle, SQL Server, and MariaDB
• AWS Lambda — Run code without thinking about servers
• Amazon VPC — Isolated cloud resources
• Amazon Lightsail — Launch and manage virtual private servers
• Amazon SageMaker — Build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Documentation

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity — literally, servers in Amazon’s data centers — that you use to build and host your software systems.

Bullet Point about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

PCI DSS COMPLIANCE

REGIONS AND AVAILABILITY ZONES

For Example:

REGIONS AND AVAILABILITY ZONES

REGIONS:-

For Examples AWS EC2 Regions:-

AWS EC2 Regions

Availability Zones

Availability Zones

Types of Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

AMI’s are categorized as either:-

Instance Types:-

EC2 Virtualization Types:-