EC2 Introduction¶

EC2 is one of the most popular of AWS offerings
It mainly consists of capability of:
- Renting [[virtual machine]]s (EC2)
- Storing data on [[virtual drive]]s (EBS)
- Distributing load across machines (ELB)
- Scaling the services using an Auto Scaling Group (ASG)
Knowing EC2 is fundamental to understand how the [[Cloud]] works