Lab Overview

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services Cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need, configure security and networking, and manage storage. Amazon EC2 enables you to scale up or down to handle changes in requirements or spikes in popularity, reducing your need to forecast traffic. 

Learning objectives

In this EC2 deployment simulation, you’ll be guided through the deployment of an EC2 instance in AWS, using the console.

Exam Relevance

The skills you learn in this lab are necessary to pass the following Azure certification exams:

• • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Additional Learning

To learn more about deploying EC2 instances in AWS, you should enroll in this course.