What is Amazon EC2 and how to launch an EC2 instance? Step by step guide
Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) is a web service that allows you to deploy your applications in the cloud. Amazon EC2 comprises of both Windows and Linux based operating systems. But before we dive into launching an Amazon EC2 instance, first of all, let’s have an overview of virtual machines.
What is a virtual machine?
A virtual machine which is also known as a guest is created within a computing environment, called a host. A virtual machine (VM) is a software program or operating system that behaves like a separate computer and carries out various tasks such as running applications and programs. Also, it is an application environment that is installed on software while using dedicated hardware.
Now, let’s talk about Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a service which allows individuals to run various application programs in the computing environment. Similarly, it is an AWS service that provides scalable computing capacity, allowing us to scale up or down as per the change in requirement and minimizes the need to forecast the traffic.
Furthermore, with EC2, we can launch as many or as few virtual servers according to our requirements. And additionally, it allows us to configure security and networking as well as managing the storage.
Launching an Amazon EC2 instance
Step 1: First of all we are required to Sign In to our AWS Management Console.
Note: If you require guidance to Sign In to your AWS Management Console from your AWS Educate account, you can refer to my previous blog as provided below.
Step 2: In find services, search for “EC2”.
