In this episode of The Cloud Engineer’s Playbook, we zoom in on one of the most fundamental AWS services: Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud).

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is EC2, and why it’s a cornerstone of cloud computing
• Powerful features of EC2 like scalability, pay-as-you-go pricing, and elasticity
• The different types of EC2 instances and how to select the right one
• Real-world examples and how EC2 helps teams move fast and reduce hardware costs

Here is a Cloud Formation template to spin up an Ubuntu OS in EC2.

If you’re building in the cloud, EC2 is mission-critical knowledge. Tune in and level up!