EC2 Core Concepts
Explore key concepts of AWS Elastic Compute Cloud such as Amazon Machine Images, instance types, and instance lifecycle states. Understand how to manage AMIs, select appropriate instances, and control instance states like launching, stopping, hibernating, and terminating to optimize your AWS compute resources.
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In this lesson, we will go over some core concepts of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) such as Amazon Machine Image (AMI), its lifecycle, and billing. Then, we will look at different types of instances offered by EC2 and learn about their use cases.
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An Amazon Machine Image is a pre-configured image provided by AWS that contains the necessary information required to launch an instance. AMI serves as a template for the root volume that includes information regarding the operating system, application server, and applications.
An AMI must be specified to launch an instance; multiple instances can be launched from a single AMI. We can also create our ...