Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

EC2 provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It's essentially a virtual server (Virtual Machine).

Benefits of EC2:

• Elasticity: Scale up or down based on demand.
• Control: You have full administrative access (root/Administrator).
• Flexibility: Choose OS, CPU, RAM, and Storage.

Key Terminology:

• AMI (Amazon Machine Image): The template for the server (OS + Software).
• Instance Type: Defines the hardware specs (e.g., t2.micro).
• Security Groups: Virtual firewalls for your instance.