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Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition
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Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition

by Andreas Wittig, Michael Wittig
May 2023
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
16h 16m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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3 Using virtual machines: EC2

This chapter covers

  • Launching a virtual machine with Linux
  • Controlling a virtual machine remotely via the Session Manager
  • Monitoring and debugging a virtual machine
  • Saving costs for virtual machines

It’s impressive what you can achieve with the computing power of the smartphone in your pocket or the laptop in your bag. But if your task requires massive computing power or high network traffic, or needs to run reliably 24/7, a virtual machine is a better fit. With a virtual machine, you get access to a slice of a physical machine located in a data center. On AWS, virtual machines are offered by the service called Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

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