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Amazon EC2

Understand Amazon EC2 as a key AWS core service offering scalable virtual servers. Explore EC2 instances, Amazon Machine Images, instance types, and how to secure and store data effectively on EC2. Gain foundational knowledge crucial for managing cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a resizable cloud computing capacity. It allows users to run virtual servers, known as instances, for various computing tasks. EC2 offers a secure, flexible, and scalable solution, enabling businesses to easily deploy, manage, and scale applications without investing in physical hardware.

EC2 offers other benefits besides being a flexible computing capacity. It allows us to deploy instances in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) within a Region in combination with different services, such as an elastic load balancer and an auto scaling group, to offer high availability within a Region. In this lesson, we’ll learn the core concepts of EC2.

Architecture diagram: EC2 instances deployed in multiple AZs
Architecture diagram: EC2 instances deployed in multiple AZs

Core concepts

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