Summary

• Amazon provides scalable computing capacity using EC2.
• No need to buy hardware—EC2 provides a pay-as-you-go model.
• EC2 instances are quick to provision and access.
• You can scale the number of instances dynamically up or down based on requirements.
• You can use AMIs to launch EC2 instances.
• AMI includes preconfigured operating systems and software for ease of use.
• AWS provides a number of instance types based on various combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity.
• AWS uses key pairs, public keys and private keys, that are used to secure access to EC2 instances.
• A public key is stored in an EC2 instance, and a private key is provided to you that can be used to access the instances remotely.
• Instance store volume data is automatically deleted when you stop or terminate an instance.
• AWS EBS offers a persistent storage option, wherein data remains intact...