What is EC2 Instance in AWS?

EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon EC2 provides Scalable Computing Capacity in the AWS Cloud.

• Users can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or a few virtual servers as they need. Also, one can configure security and networking and manage storage according to their needs.

• Amazon EC2 gives users the flexibility to scale up and scale down the instance.

• Amazon EC2 has 2 storage options i.e. EBS(Elastic Block Storage) and instance storage.

• Pre-Configured templates are available and known as Amazon Machine Image.

• By default, when you create an EC2 instance your account is limited to a maximum of 20 instances per EC2 region with 2 default Input-Output instances.

Types of EC2 Instances

1. General Purpose -> Balanced Memory & CPU

2. Compute Optimized -> More CPU than RAM

3. Memory Optimized -> More RAM

4. Accelerated Computing / GPU -> Graphics Optimized

5. Storage Optimized -> Low Latency

6. High Memory -> High RAM, Nitro System

7. Previous Generation Instances