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❓ EC2 FAQ Crib Sheet
What is EC2?
> Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in cloud
What can I do with EC2?
> "Compute"
> Obtain and configure cacpacity with minimal friction
> Complete control of compute resources
> Reduce time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes
What can developers do they couldn't before?
> Aquire masive compute resources when there are spikes in load
> Allows any developer to leverage AWS scale
> Elasticity means applications can meet spikes in traffic demands.
EC2 has local instance store (temporal storage), use EBS or EFS (multiple EC2s) for more permanent file storage
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