What is Amazon EC2?
AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, designed to facilitate web-scale computing for developers. It offers a simple web service interface to obtain and configure computing resources with minimal effort. AWS EC2 empowers users with complete control over their computing environment, allowing them to run on Amazon's proven computing infrastructure. The service enables rapid scaling of capacity, both up and down, to adapt to changing computing requirements, and it charges users only for the resources they actually utilize, transforming the economics of computing
Highlights
- Ability to launch instances with a variety of operating systems and custom application environments
- Flexible management of network access permissions and the number of systems to run
- Option to select pre-configured, templated Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) or create custom AMIs with applications, libraries, data, and configuration settings
- Configurable security and network access for Amazon EC2 instances
- Flexibility to run instances in multiple locations, utilize static IP endpoints, and attach persistent block storage
Features
Secure – Amazon EC2 works in conjunction with
Reliable – Amazon EC2 offers a highly reliable
Inexpensive – Amazon EC2 passes on to you the
Easy to Start – Quickly get started with Amazon
Elastic – Amazon EC2 enables you to increase or
Completely Controlled – You have complete control
Flexible – You have the choice of multiple
Designed for use with other Amazon Web Services –