What is Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud )

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2):-

Amazon EC2 provides us scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services. Using Ec2, you can setup, develop and deploy faster applications.You can launch Virtual servers as per your need, configure security and networking.

Amazon allows us easily scale up and down your EC2 instance as per your load requirement.



Features of Amazon EC2: - 

• Instances- Virtual computing.
• AMI -Preconfigured templates are known as Amazon Machine Image include OS with basic driver software.
• Instance type- Various type of Instance with the different types of hardware configuration.
• EBS - Persistent storage volumes for your data.
• Availability Zone- Multiple locations for your resource, Such as Instance and EBS in a region US-East-region - Availability Zone-A  and Availability Zone-B.
• Regions - Multiple physical locations for your resources, Such as US-east-region and US-west-region.
• Security Groups- A type of firewall with Inbound and Outbound rules where you and enable specific port, Protocols and source IP ranges that can reach to your instance.
• Elastic IP - Static IPV4 address for your Instance to access over the internet.
• Tag- You can create and assign to your EC2 Instance.
• VPC- Virtual Private Clouds, allow us to isolate our resource from the rest of the AWS cloud.