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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