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AWS EC2 Intro

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Summary

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides a virtual server that you can rent and control as fully as your own computer. With EC2 you pick the operating system images, capacity sizes, and network rules and run the app as needed. The term elastic indicates that capacity can be easily increased or decreased.

Key points

EC2 is a virtual server that is rented on demand
The instance is made from AMI, which is an operating system image template.
User controls the OS, software, and network configuration
The term elastic means capacity can change flexibly

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