This course provides the best Amazon Web Services (AWS) tutorial for beginners to learn about AWS cloud services.

Learn about the core AWS's services like compute, storage, networking services and how they work with other services like Identity, Mobile,  Routing, and Security. This course provides you with a good grasp an all you need to know of AWS services.

This course has been designed by three AWS Solution Certified Architects who have a combined industry experience of 17 years.  We aim to provide you with just the right depth of knowledge you need to have.

Kyle Murphy

Easy to read and very succinct ! Loved this course. Its better than most other courses  out there that are either half baked or way to detailed. 

Excellent,  time and money well spent on this. 

Richard Guajardo

Got what I was looking for. I used this for my interview prep with AWS. 

Worth it !

Tammy Rogers 

Loved all the architecture diagrams. It really helped in understanding how each service would be used. 

Pretty detailed. 

Learn the A to Z of  Amazon Web Services  (AWS)

## What is EC2?

This is a web service that provides a re-sizable compute in the cloud.

AWS EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change.

In the old world if you need an app server or DB server, you would first need to talk to your developer, decide the size and number of cores you need, and then talk to your procurement team, and by the time the server is in your data center it could take 2+ months.

Now with EC2, you have this with a click of a button.
This also means from a startup perspective you do not have the upfront cost of buying all the hardware you need.

EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for the capacity that you actually use. 
You also have several tools at the disposal of the developers to build the applications to be resilient and isolate them from failure scenarios.



# What is EC2?

This is a web service that provides a re-sizable compute in the cloud.

AWS EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change.

In the old world if you need an app server or DB server, you would first need to talk to your developer, decide the size and number of cores you need, and then talk to your procurement team, and by the time the server is in your data center it could take 2+ months.

Now with EC2, you have this with a click of a button.
This also means from a startup perspective you do not have the upfront cost of buying all the hardware you need.

EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for the capacity that you actually use. 
You also have several tools at the disposal of the developers to build the applications to be resilient and isolate them from failure scenarios.



Fundamental Building Blocks of AWS

AWS: Miscellaneous Services

AWS: Identity & Access Management (IAM)

AWS: Compute Offerings

AWS: Storage

AWS: Database Offerings

AWS: Routing

AWS: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

AWS: Application Services

AWS Well Architected Framework

EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud

What is EC2?