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What is an EC2, a VM, an Instance and AMI?

Cloud Research

What is an EC2?

EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud and it's a highly configurable server. EC2 allows you to launch VMs.

What is a VM?

VM stands for Virutal Machine and it's a computer file usually called an image that acts like a computer. So, its a computer within a computer. You are able to create, copy, resize or migrate your server. You can run multiple VM's on a server to share cost with other customers.

What is an Instance?

When we launce a VM its called an Instance.

What is an AMI?

AMI stands for Amazon Machine Image. So when using EC2 you can choose AMI options like:

  • The amout of CPU
  • The amount of Memory (RAM)
  • The amount of Network Bandiwidth
  • The Operation System
  • Attach multiple virutal HDD's for storage

So basically everything in AWS is using EC2 under the hood.

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