July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
378 pages
10h 26m
English
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Elastic Compute (EC2)
EC2 allows you to create virtual servers (called instances). You define the virtual hardware configuration (think CPU/RAM mix) and the amount of storage. Then, a few minutes later, it is up and running and ready for you to use. At the time of this writing, there are 55 different EC2 virtual hardware configuration options. Many operating systems are supported, including Windows and several versions of Linux. We will refer to a virtual server as an EC2 instance for the rest of this section.
AWS memory optimized EC2 instances. Source: Amazon Web Services
The EC2 instance is created from an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and ...