Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a resizable cloud computing capacity. It allows users to run virtual servers, known as instances, for various computing tasks. EC2 offers a secure, flexible, and scalable solution, enabling businesses to easily deploy, manage, and scale applications without investing in physical hardware.

EC2 offers different benefits besides being a flexible computing capacity. It allows us to deploy instances in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) within a region in combination with different services such as elastic load balancer and auto scaling group to offer high availability within a region. In this lesson, we’ll learn the core concepts of EC2.