What Is Ec2 ? Key feature ? Real-time-example? Benefit? and Steps to create an EC2?

Day 01 of #25Days25AWSServices

So we start from the Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud)Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Overview:

🚀 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭?

EC2 is a web service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 compute capacity in the cloud.

💻 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬:

𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Scale compute resources up or down based on demand.

𝐅𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: Choose from various instance types, operating systems, and software packages.

𝐄𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲: Automatically adjust capacity to handle fluctuating workloads.

𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲: Utilize AWS security features like VPCs, security groups, and IAM roles.

🔧 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞:

𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨: A popular e-commerce website experiences a sudden surge in traffic due to a flash sale.

𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: The DevOps team uses EC2 to quickly spin up additional instances to handle the increased load.

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭: The website maintains performance and availability during peak traffic without downtime or performance issues.

🔗 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

Seamlessly integrates with other AWS services like Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Auto Scaling, and Amazon RDS for comprehensive infrastructure management.

📈 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬:

𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲: Pay only for the resources you use with per-hour billing.

𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: EC2 instances are housed in multiple availability zones for high availability and fault tolerance.

𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐬𝐞: Simple API and management console make provisioning and managing instances straightforward.

💡 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧:

Amazon EC2 empowers DevOps teams to build robust, scalable, and flexible cloud infrastructures to support a wide range of applications and workloads.

To create an EC2 instance on AWS, you can follow these steps:

Sign in to AWS Management Console: Go to the AWS Management Console and sign in to your AWS account.

After Sign In you will land on this page

Navigate to EC2 Dashboard: Once logged in, navigate to the EC2 dashboard by selecting "EC2" from the list of services.

Launch Instance: Click on the "Launch Instance" button to begin the process of creating a new EC2 instance.

Provide the Name to your VM ex- Param_DevOps

Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI): Select an AMI from the provided list. You can choose from various operating systems and pre-configured software options.
I'm going with Amazon linux

Choose an Instance Type: Select the instance type based on your requirements for CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity
I'm preferring t2.micro which is free

Select Key Pair: Choose an existing key pair or create a new one to securely connect to your instance using SSH or RDP.

Configure Security Group: Define security groups to control inbound and outbound traffic to your instance by specifying rules.

Add Storage: Specify the storage options for your instance, including the size and type of the root volume. till 30GiB its free

Then Launch Instance: Finally, click on the "Launch Instances" button to create your EC2 instance.

Access Your Instance: Once the instance is launched, you can access it using SSH (for Linux instances) or Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) (for Windows instances) using the appropriate credentials and security configurations.