Introduction to AWS EC2

Introduction to AWS EC2

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What exactly is AWS EC2?

It is one of the most popular of Amazon's cloud-computing platform, AWS (Amazon Web Services). Basically EC2 allows users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications. A user can boot an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) to configure a virtual machine usually called an "instance" and contains installed software just like any regular PC does. On the DevOps side, these applications can be deployed and scaled by providing a web service the user can boot up the AMI.

Registered users can easily create, launch or delete these instances based on need which makes avaiable a very flexible option for usage. AWS EC2 also gives users the ability to choose from a wide range of geographical locations worldwide to solve the problem of latency and avoid redundancy

AWS gives first time users free tier option to experiment to their heart's content.