October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 20m
English
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EC2 - computing service
The first element that a cloud system has to provide to the users is computing power. EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud, and it allows you to create machines on the cloud with a few clicks.
This is what the EC2 interface looks like:
EC2 interface
EC2 was launched on August 25, 2006 (beta version), and it has evolved a lot since then. It provides the user with different sizes of machines and is available across the globe (11 different regions as of today). This means that the user can spin up machines in different parts of the globe for high availability and latency purposes, enabling the engineers of your company ...