Summary and Quiz

Get a refresher of what you’ve learned in the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) chapter and take a short quiz to validate your knowledge.

In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned in this chapter and test our knowledge of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service with a short quiz.

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, better known as EC2. Here’s a summary of the key takeaways from this chapter:

EC2 core concepts

EC2 provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud. It allows users to run virtual servers, known as instances, for various computing tasks. 

  • An Elastic Network Interface (ENI), also known as a Network Interface, is a virtual network card that can be attached to the EC2 instances.

  • EC2 allows running virtual servers, known as instances, of different types based on the requirements.

  • Each instance can be pre-configured using an AMI template of software configurations.

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