What is Amazon EC2?
Amazon EC2 is a service that provides compute capacity in the cloud. Some of the features includes but is not limited to the following:
- Bare Metal Instances
- Applications have direct access the processor memory of the underlying server
- Bare metal instances can also be used with AWS Virtual Private Cloud, Elastic Block Store, and Elastic Load Balancing.
- Pause and Resume Instances
- Allows you to hibernate and resume your EC2 instance at a later time
- You will not be charged for instance usage while in hibernation
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