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AWS Essentials

Learn core AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and best practices for security, cost optimization, and the Well-Architected Framework.

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AWS Essentials

Learn core AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and best practices for security, cost optimization, and the Well-Architected Framework.

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What is Amazon EC2?

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Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides resizable virtual servers (instances) in the cloud. You can launch instances with different CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity to match your workload requirements.

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