Amazon EC2 Getting Started

In this course, you will learn the benefits and technical concepts of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). If you are new to the service, you will learn how to start using Amazon EC2 through a demonstration using the AWS Management Console. You will learn about how to provision and manage virtual servers in the cloud without investing in physical hardware.

• Selecting instance types and AMIs
• Launching instances in AWS Console
• Configuring key pairs and security groups
• Starting, stopping, monitoring instances

• Understand how EC2 enables virtual servers
• Launch and manage a basic EC2 instance
• Describe key EC2 components and options

• Intro lessons on EC2 concepts
• AWS Console demonstration walkthrough
• Practical examples and quick checks
• Certificate of completion