Introduction to Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

With Amazon EC2, you can launch virtual servers (called instances), choose from a variety of instance types optimized for different use cases, and configure the number of instances you want to deploy. You can also choose the operating system and software packages you want to use on your instances.

You can use Amazon EC2 to host your web applications, store data, and run other workloads. Amazon EC2 provides a secure and scalable computing environment, and it is a key component of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform.

AWS Free Tier

The AWS Free Tier is a program offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides new AWS customers with a free tier of service for a limited period of time. The free tier includes a variety of AWS services and resources, some of which have a free tier that does not expire, while others are only free for the first 12 months after signing up for an AWS account.

The AWS Free Tier is designed to help new AWS customers get started with the AWS cloud platform and familiarize themselves with the various AWS services. The free tier is available to new AWS customers and can be accessed by signing up for an AWS account. Details are below:

• A free tier of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) that includes 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro instance usage per month
• A free tier of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) that includes 5 GB of standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests per month
• A free tier of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that includes 750 hours of usage of a t2.micro instance and 20 GB of database storage per month

More specific free tier information for AWS EC2:

EC2 Free tier: In your first year includes 750 hours of t2…