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AWS Questions for Amazon EC2

35. What is Amazon EC2?


EC2 is short for Elastic Compute Cloud, and it provides scalable computing capacity.
Using Amazon EC2 eliminates the need to invest in hardware, leading to faster
development and deployment of applications. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as
many or as few virtual servers as needed, configure security and networking, and
manage storage. It can scale up or down to handle changes in requirements,
reducing the need to forecast traffic. EC2 provides virtual computing environments
called “instances.”
36. What Are Some of the Security Best Practices for Amazon EC2?
Security best practices for Amazon EC2 include using Identity and Access
Management (IAM) to control access to AWS resources; restricting access by only
allowing trusted hosts or networks to access ports on an instance; only opening up
those permissions you require, and disabling password-based logins for instances
launched from your AMI.
37. Can S3 Be Used with EC2 Instances, and If Yes, How?
Amazon S3 can be used for instances with root devices backed by local instance
storage. That way, developers have access to the same highly scalable, reliable,
fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global
network of websites. To execute systems in the Amazon EC2 environment,
developers load Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) into Amazon S3 and then move
them between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2.
Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 are two of the best-known web services that make up
AWS.
38. What is the difference between stopping and terminating an EC2 instance?
While you may think that both stopping and terminating are the same, there is a
difference. When you stop an EC2 instance, it performs a normal shutdown on the
instance and moves to a stopped state. However, when you terminate the instance,
it is transferred to a stopped state, and the EBS volumes attached to it are deleted
and can never be recovered.
39. What are the different types of EC2 instances based on their costs?
The three types of EC2 instances are:
 On-demand Instance
It is cheap for a short time but not when taken for the long term
 Spot Instance
It is less expensive than the on-demand instance and can be bought through
bidding.
 Reserved Instance
If you are planning to use an instance for a year or more, then this is the right one
for you.
"AWS remains the best in the world at creating cloud infrastructure and the tools
surrounding it." — Timothy Horan and Jason Helfstein, Oppenheimer analysts.

40. How do you set up SSH agent forwarding so that you do not have to copy the
key every time you log in?
Here’s how you accomplish this:
1. Go to your PuTTY Configuration
2. Go to the category SSH -> Auth
3. Enable SSH agent forwarding to your instance

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