Amazon Web Services EC2 – Part 1: Introduction and Availability Zones
February 26th, 2009
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Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
EC2 is the computing part of the Amazon services. EC2 provides the CPU, memory, operating system and transient storage. EC2 is the equivalent of a barebones PC. You get to pick the amount of RAM you need (from a predefined list of configurations), the amount of transient storage you need (also from a list) and the number of CPUs you need (from a series of compute options). For the operating system, you can choose from various flavors of Linux, Solaris or Microsoft Windows Server.
If you can use a web browser and understand basic computer technology, you can use EC2.
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