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Sushant Deshpande
Sushant Deshpande

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☁️ What is AWS EC2? (In Simple Language)

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a virtual server in the cloud.

Instead of buying a physical computer, AWS allows us to rent a server online.

We can:

  • Launch a virtual machine
  • Install software
  • Host websites
  • Run applications

EC2 is useful because:

  • It is scalable
  • It is secure
  • We pay only for what we use

In my learning journey, I launched my first EC2 instance and deployed a static website.

In the next post, I will share the complete step-by-step project 🚀

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