Amazon EC2 Fundamentals

Learn how Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) can make cloud computing easier for developers. Discover how to configure and launch an EC2 instance.

Introduction

• Introduction

1. Understanding Amazon EC2

• AWS free tier
• What is Amazon EC2?
• AWS regions and availability zones
• Picking the right region: Best practices

2. What Makes Up an EC2 Instance

• What makes up an EC2 instance
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Instance family, class, and size
• Virtual private cloud (VPC) and subnets
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and root device volumes
• Security groups
• Demo: Security groups
• Key pairs

3. Launching an EC2 Instance

• Launching an EC2 instance: Deep dive
• Viewing instance information
• Connect to Linux instance from Linux or Mac
• Connect to Linux instance from Windows
• Connect to Windows instance from Linux, Mac, or Windows
• Changing the instance password