Use cases of AWS EC2- Instances
- EC2 instances can be used to host websites, applications, and APIs in the cloud.
- It can be used to process large amounts of data using tools like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark.
- It can be used to perform demanding computing tasks, such as scientific simulations and financial modeling.
- EC2 instances can be used to develop, test, and deploy software, allowing teams to quickly spin up resources as needed.
Create EC2 Instance in AWS (Amazon): Complete Tutorial
EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud. EC2 is an on-demand computing service on the AWS cloud platform. Under computing, it includes all the services a computing device can offer to you along with the flexibility of a virtual environment. It also allows the user to configure their instances as per their requirements i.e. allocate the RAM, ROM, and storage according to the need of the current task.
Amazon EC2 is a short form of Elastic Compute Cloud (ECC) it is a cloud computing service offered by the Cloud Service Provider AWS. You can deploy your applications in EC2 servers without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. You configure the EC2-Instance in a very secure manner by using the VPC, Subnets, and Security groups. You can scale the configuration of the EC2 instance you have configured based on the demand of the application by attaching the autoscaling group to the EC2 instance. You can scale up and scale down the instance based on the incoming traffic of the application.