Launching an AWS EC2 Instance

What is an AWS EC2? Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a virtual server that you rent in AWS, which means you only use it when you need it and only pay for what you use. This is called "instance" in AWS. Why should you use EC2? The core objective of using AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is to provide resizable, on-demand computing power in the cloud. Instead of buying a physical server, putting it in a room, and plugging it in, EC2 allows you to "rent" a virtual slice of a powerful data center in seconds. Here are the primary objectives broken down: Scalability(Elasticity) . If your website gets a sudden spike in traffic, you can launch 10 more instances instantly . It's easy to spin this up and it can even happen automatically using a feature called auto scaling. Reliability and Global reach If one of your servers goes down for whatever reason, it can be automatically replaced with another one. This is because Amazon has billions of dollars of infrastructure all over the world. To host yo