Summary and Quiz

In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned in this chapter and test our knowledge of the AWS compute services with a short quiz.

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. 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. 

• 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.

• Security group rules control inbound and outbound traffic to the resource. These rules allow traffic filtering based on protocols, port numbers, and IP addresses.

  • Inbound rules are used to ...