Creating and Connecting to an Amazon EC2 Instance

AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon EC2 is a core Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offered by Amazon Web Services that provides resizable, on-demand virtual servers in the cloud. It lets users rent virtual machines, called instances , to run applications without purchasing or maintaining physical hardware. EC2 instances can be launched, scaled, and terminated in seconds, making them ideal for workloads that vary in size or demand. EC2 supports multiple operating systems like Linux and Windows, integrates natively with AWS networking (VPC), storage (EBS, S3), security (IAM, Security Groups), and automation services, and operates on a pay-as-you-go pricing model. In this project, I will show you how to create and connect to an Amazon Web Services EC2 instance. Create and deploy an EC2 instance In the AWS portal, search for and select EC2 On the EC2 dashboard, select launch instance Give your EC2 instance a name Select an operating system or image name (I will select the Ubuntu OS in