The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud. This lets you launch virtual machines (called instances), which can be customized to suit your needs. Instance types vary in CPU, memory, storage, and networking, so you can pick what’s right for you.
AWS EC2 provides the flexibility to scale your resources up or down as needed, so you only pay for the resources you use. Additionally, you are able to configure security and network settings for your instances, as well as launch instances in a number of availability zones to ensure high availability.
Some key features of EC2 include:
- Elasticity: Scale resources up or down as needed
- Customization: Choose from a variety of instance types and configurations
- Security: Configure security groups and network settings
- High availability: Launch instances in multiple availability zones
- Flexibility: Choose between On-demand, Reserved, and Spot instances.
AWS’s EC2 service is a core service that is used for a wide range of applications, such as web-based applications, big data processing, and gaming servers.