Computing Operations — AWS Solution Architect Associate Series — Part 6

EC2 Deploying

At this stage, we have configured user groups, users, and the necessary permissions. Now it’s time to spin up a virtual machine that will utilize these settings. The EC2 tab is the area where you initiate the launch of an “instance”.

When you click on the “Launch Cloud Server” section in the visual, it will redirect you to the area where you can configure the settings for your cloud server. Here, you will be prompted to make settings on a page containing options such as OS selection, network configurations, SSH or web access permissions, and more. After making the relevant settings, you can directly launch your server.

Note: Payment is made hourly or per-second for each type of cloud server (minimum of 60 seconds).

There are other computing technologies which are that serve different needs. Let's see what are they.

Amazon Computing

Amazon provides users with a variety of computing services. These services should be selected based on the user’s specific needs and objectives. Below are some of the services offered by Amazon.

To use these, you first need to understand and be familiar with basic “computing” options. The options provided by AWS can be listed as follows:

- Virtual Machines (Instances)
- Containers
- Serverless

At this stage, if you have infrastructure and system knowledge, virtual machines (Instances) would be the most suitable option. This will make management easier for you. If you prefer to scale more easily and provide more flexible services, a container structure may be the most suitable for you. In addition, if you don’t want to think about servers and prefer to build and run code easily, you can use Lambda, the serverless option.

This post is a little bit short but useful. In the next post, we going to learn about Amazon AMI.

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