EC2- Elastic cloud compute

• Elastic compute cloud ->requesting AWS to provide a virtual server

• Elastic means scaled up or scaled down, when we can increase or decrease or use these resources anywhere- More ex EKS, Elastic beanstalk

• why should use an EC2 instance? -> Instead of manually doing this AWS will take care, Maintenance is reduced and the cost is reduced as pay as you use the service.

• Multiple types of EC2 instance

• Depending upon the application need to choose what type of EC2 instance.

1. -> General Purpose

2. -> Compute Optimized

3. Memory Optimized -> high memory in terms of power- when needing to use real-time big data/ gaming application/machine learning models.

4. ->Storage Optimized

-> Accelerated

Regions and Availability Zones

Latency - request that takes time to reach the server from and to