From the course: AWS Management Console: A Beginner's Guide to Services
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Before you launch your EC2 - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS Management Console: A Beginner's Guide to Services
Before you launch your EC2
- [Instructor] We're going to go ahead and launch our first EC2, but before we do that, there are a couple things you need to know. The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, is a core service offering by AWS. It also serves as a foundation for other AWS services, as it is a source of computing power. An EC2 instance is a virtual server or machine running in your AWS environment, and we'll see how to do that in a little bit. They've got a wide range of users, so from website hosting to gaming, mail servers, pretty much the same workloads that you run on your on-prem servers, you can do that on an EC2. However, because it's a virtual machine, you can create it and delete it, unlike your on-premise servers. EC2s are elastic because you can easily increase or decrease the number of instances you have, as well as the size of the instance. So if you have a really large instance and you see that it's being underutilized, rather than, you know, deleting it and then recreating it and moving…
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