#compute

EC2 Basics

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is AWS’s core compute service. It lets you run virtual servers — called instances — in the cloud. Instead of buying and maintaining physical hardware, you can launch a server in minutes, use it for as long as you need, and shut it down when you’re done. If you’ve been through the AWS Getting Started guide, you already have an AWS account. In this tutorial, we’ll launch an EC2 instance, connect to it via SSH, run a simple web server, and then clean everything up so you don’t get charged. Read more →

April 3, 2026