Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the largest public cloud in the world and we will use EC2 to set up our CI server.

Assuming that you have already created your free account on AWS, you should be able to see the console area when you log in.

As you can see in the following image, it is packed with loads of components, and if this is the first time you are here, it might look overwhelming. Don't worry, we only need two of these services for this chapter:

Elastic Compute Cloud

Creating a new instance

Our CI server is basically a virtual machine running Linux, which, in AWS terminology, is called an instance. So, from now on, when you see the term ...

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