Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). EC2 allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a Web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to create a virtual machine, which Amazon calls an ""instance"", containing any software desired. This book is your ultimate resource for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.
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