MicroNugget: What is Amazon EC2?

In this video, Jeremy Cioara covers Amazon EC2, along with a brief overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Understanding how to build a virtual server in the cloud is a critical developmental step for many systems administrators, particularly with a leading provider such as AWS.

The “EC” in Amazon EC2 stands for “elastic computing,” which is essentially the buzzword for bringing up a virtual server in the cloud. Jeremy walks through an Amazon AWS management console and showcases how to complete a basic cloud server setup. He also zooms out to look at the larger picture of what this kind of capability offers sysadmins, demonstrating how this is the next step in server evolution and what it means for business in general and IT in particular. One substantial advantage is the significant cost savings a company can achieve via horizontal development versus vertical development as you only pay for what you need.

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[cbtnuggets]

Hi Pradeep, if you look in the description there is a link to suggest new micronuggets. We look at that regularly.

[cbtnuggets]

Hexmedi, if you would like to familiarize yourself with EC2, we recommend subscribing to our Amazon Web Services: AWS Foundations training series.

[cbtnuggets]

You may get a free trial for Amazon EC2 but there is a minimal fee associated with this service through Amazon.

[cbtnuggets]

Thanks for the comment. Do you or your company plan on using Amazon Web Services?

[hexmedi]

Best EC2 Ad ever ! hahaha
Great job man.

[FayimoraFemiBalogun]

Brilliant! The humour was ~perfect too :D

[funfactslearning]

insane explanation! you just nailed it.. thumbs up

[njain]

loved the explanation.. a true evangelist presented this! impressive

[pradeepshetty]

Hey, very informative short and sweet version, as I have heard other complicated rocket science versions of amazon ec2. Could you please share your thoughts like this on other open source utilities needed for software testing.

[cbtnuggets]

Thats great! How familiar are you with elastic computing?

[vikram.SumerSingh]

This guy is Awesome. Loved this video. 

[dxdragonious]

Amazon should pay your the ad because you just sold me on it.

[hexmedi]

Yeah my client wants to deploy his app on EC2 so I'm trying to get familiar with that.

[aryan]

hi, well nice explanation through explanatory diagrams. but i need videos about different AWS products and services from CBT NUGGETS, Please. I love the way you teach. Please help.

[pietermoons]

I'm writing a blog article in dutch on our company website about AWS and I embedded your video as an example. I hope you're ok with that :-)

[hexmedi]

I'm new to EC2. Do you have any resources that can help me get started? I'm interested in this mainly for the Neo4j hosting with Django. Any ideas?

[UBOATss]

he loves what he does...and this is the result

[Walrus]

what software does he use for the drawing?

[cbtnuggets]

@sabalan55, could you be a little more specific in your questions?

[skelomania]

Hi i thought it was free on amazon ????