Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud – EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud – EC2

In the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers scalable computing power. Using Amazon EC2 reduces the requirement for investments in hardware so that applications may be developed and implemented more quickly. Use Amazon EC2 for startup, configuration and storage of as many or as few virtual servers as you require. You can scale up or down Amazon EC2, which reduces your traffic forecast needs to manage changes in requirements and popularity gains.

Amazon EC2 characteristics

  • Environments known as virtual computing instances
  • The templates you need for your instances are preconfigured, called Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) (including the operating system and additional software)
  • For your instances known as instance kinds, various CPU, RAM, storage and network settings
  • Use key pairs to safeguard your login credentials for instances (AWS stores the public key, and you store the private key in a secure place)
  • Storage volumes for ephemeral data that are removed when your instance stops, winters or ends, known as instance storage volumes
  • Persistent storage volumes for your information by using the Amazon EBS (Amazon EBS)
  • several physical locations, known as regions and availability zones for your resources such as instances and Amazon EBS volumes.
  • A firewall that allows for the protocols, ports and IP ranges you can reach with security groups.
  • Static IPv4 addresses known as Elastic IP addresses for dynamic cloud computing
  • You may build and apply metadata to your Amazon EC2 resources, known as tags
  • You can establish virtual networks logically insulated from the rest of the AWS cloud that can be connected to your private network, known as virtual clouds (VPCs)