EC2 Fundamentals - AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification

Chapter 2: EC2. AWS Solutions Architect Associate Complete Course

Gonzalo Fernandez Plaza
10 min readJun 21, 2021

Hello everyone. In this chapter, let’s start with the AWS Core Services. In this case, we will study EC2, possibly the most important AWS Service.

AWS EC2 for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification.
AWS EC2 for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification.

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EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud, a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It offers the broadest and deepest compute platform with a choice of processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model. Therefore, with EC2, you can create, among other things, servers, configure their network, hard disks, and load balancers in the cloud. Although transparent to us in some cases, most AWS services use EC2 on the back end.

Once we have understood what EC2 is all about, let’s analyze the service. EC2 is mainly composed of:

  • Virtual machines → EC2
  • Block-storage…

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Gonzalo Fernandez Plaza

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