Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

EC2 Instances

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, scalable compute capacity in the cloud.
It is a simple web service interface that allows you to obtain and configure virtual compute service capacity with minimal friction
It can be obtained on-demand and can be paid per mode (Pay-As-You-Go)
You can create up to 5000 users per AWS account
Every EC2 instances when configured comes with the storage volume attached to it. This block storage where OS is installed is called ‘Elastic Block Storage’
These EC2 instances can be configured with Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems and can be accessed via remote using public IP address.