2. Amazon Web Services
- Launched in 2006
- Amazon.com cloud
computing platform
- Collection of remote
computing services
- EC2 and S3 are central
parts of this service
3. Elastic Compute Cloud
- Rent virtual servers
> Instances
- Resizable compute
capacity in the cloud
> web-scale computing
- “Elastic” === Create,
launch and terminate server
instances as needed
4. Why EC2?
- Rapid creation or elimination
of virtual machines
> Thousands in minutes
- Automatic scaling:
> Time of day vs rule-based
- Only pay for what you use
- Control over geographic
location of instance
5. Basic Setup: part 1
- Log on to AWS
management console
- Access EC2 dashboard
- Launch instance in a region
- Select machine image for
setup and configure storage
options
> free tier choices
6. Basic Setup: part 2
- Security group settings
> admin access
> specific IP
- Create key pair, use to
connect to instance
- Launch instance!