What Is Amazon EC2
What Is Amazon EC2
If you've already signed up for Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can start using
Amazon EC2 immediately. You can open the Amazon EC2 console, choose Launch
Instance, and follow the steps in the launch wizard to launch your first instance.
If you haven't signed up for AWS yet, or if you need assistance launching your first
instance, complete the following tasks to get set up to use Amazon EC2:
When you sign up for Amazon Web Services (AWS), your AWS
account is automatically signed up for all services in AWS, including
Amazon EC2. You are charged only for the services that you use.
With Amazon EC2, you pay only for what you use. If you are a new
AWS customer, you can get started with Amazon EC2 for free.
If you have an AWS account already, skip to the next task. If you don't have
an AWS account,create a aws account
Sign in to AWS using the URL that you created in the previous section.
From the AWS dashboard, choose EC2 to open the Amazon EC2 console.
From the navigation bar, select a region for the key pair.
In the navigation pane, under NETWORK & SECURITY, choose Key Pairs.
Tip
The navigation pane is on the left side of the console. If you do not see the
pane, it might be minimized; choose the arrow to expand the pane. You may
Amazon Relational Database Service9 (Amazon RDS) provides an easy way to setup, operate and
scale a relational database in the cloud. You can launch a DB Instance and get access to a full-
featured MySQL database and not worry about common database administration tasks like backups,
patch management etc.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)10 is a reliable, highly scalable, hosted distributed
queue for storing messages as they travel between computers and application components.
Amazon Simple Notifications Service (Amazon SNS) provides a simple way to notify applications
or people from the cloud by creating Topics and using a publish-subscribe protocol.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) allows you to extend your corporate network into a
private cloud contained within AWS. Amazon VPC uses IPSec tunnel mode that enables you to create
a secure connection between a gateway in your data center and a gateway in AWS.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enable you to create multiple Users with unique
security credentials and manage the permissions for each of these Users within your AWS Account.
IAM is natively integrated into AWS Services. No service APIs have changed to support IAM, and
exiting applications and tools built on top of the AWS service APIs will continue to work when using
IAM.
AWS also offers various payment and billing services that leverages Amazon’s payment
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