Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute): how to launch your instance in minutes

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: 4 minutes and 39 seconds
Students: 1,840

Learn how to launch a new Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance in your AWS account. EC2, the core service of the AWS suite, allows you to create virtual compute instances, paying only for the time you run them. In this course we'll skip the theory, and jump straight to practice: showing you how to set up and configure a simple instance and install everything you'll need for a "Hello Word" web server.

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