The ability of the EC2 to scale automatically, the complete flexibility given to the user to change not only their server configurations and capacity, but also the security increases the reliability and minimizes overheads in billing.

1. Understanding The
Benefits Of Amazon
EC2

2.  The first hurdle for developers to even visualize scaling up
their websites or applications is the amount of investment for
upgrading their server space.
 Once they have secured the funds, the next hurdle is
ascertaining the machine configurations, keeping in mind the
expectation for further growth.
 This leaves a large room for error if the growth of the
company does not go as planned. That is where Amazon’s
Web Services (AWS) comes in handy.

3.  The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a method of ‘on
demand delivery of IT resources via the internet.’
 This essentially means that you no longer have to buy
machines to expand your server
 Amazon’s already present humongous server system will do
the job for you via the cloud.

4. The reason why AWS and the EC2 is great news for
businesses looking to expand is primarily the
Auto Scaling feature.

5. Auto Scaling
Elasticity
Increase in
Reliability
Return on
Investment
Features That Aid Expansion

6. Auto Scaling

7.  Suppose that your website gets its maximum traffic
during a particular hour in a day, or the activity peaks at
certain days in a month.
 Naturally, the compute power required to deal that is
higher, and if you had a physical server space, dedicated
machines would have to be reserved for it.

8.  The EC2 has the facility of letting you change the number
of virtual machines you have running at peak time to
handle that traffic more effectively.
 The EC2 can do this automatically, and that is the reason
that it seems like a godsend for scaling.

9. Return
On Investment

10.  The EC2 has a strict pay for what you use policy.
 There is no minimum commitment, and you can minimize
and expand your storage capacity and compute power as
you wish.
 If you expand your website, you can choose to upgrade your
server configurations accordingly.
 This allows for minimum gap between the demand and
supply curve.

11. Elasticity

12.  The EC2 does not force you into a corner with respect to
development environment or Operating System, as you
would be if you had purchased that machine for your
physical server space.
 Say, you have chosen 4 small machines with Linux, and
you find that 1 larger machine with Ubuntu is preferable
for your application or website.

13.  With the EC2, you can then easily collapse the 4 small
machines into a large one and change the OS and
environment with a click.
 They have various different CPU, memory disk and profile
configurations available, and full control is given to the
customer.

14. Increase In
Reliability

15.  Amazon Web Service servers are located in 11 regions and
28 availability zones, so your remote servers are spread out
across the globe.
 This is beneficial if you want to physically expand your
business to a different continent, and are looking for faster
ping rate.

16.  Also, EC2’s Elastic Load Balancer will distribute the load to
various availability zones in different geographic locations
so that there is never one single point of failure.
 Their security systems are also flexible, and the customer
can choose to dial it up or down. This avoids downtime
and ensures reliability.

17. While earlier the question was one of investment and
infrastructure, it has now shifted to best return on
investment.

18. The ability of the EC2 to scale automatically, the
complete flexibility given to the user to change not only
their server configurations and capacity, but also the
security increases the reliability and minimizes
overheads in billing.

19. Read more on Amazon Web Services:
1. Know Why Amazon Web Services Cloud Platform Is Still Leading The Market?
3. How Does Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Work?
2. Amazon Web Services: Next Generation Of Cloud Computing

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