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What is Amazon EC2?
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A service that provides resizable virtual servers, called instances, in AWS.
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Q: What is Amazon EC2?
A: A service that provides resizable virtual servers, called instances, in AWS.
Q: Which EC2 pricing model has no long-term commitment?
A: On-Demand Instances.
Q: Which EC2 purchasing option is best for interruptible, fault-tolerant work?
A: Spot Instances.
Q: Which EC2 option can help with server-bound software licensing?
A: Dedicated Hosts.
Q: What does an EC2 security group do?
A: It acts as a stateful virtual firewall controlling inbound and outbound traffic.
Q: What does Auto Scaling do?
A: It adjusts compute capacity to match demand and helps maintain availability.
Q: What is an AMI?
A: An Amazon Machine Image used as a template to launch EC2 instances.
Q: What is Elastic Load Balancing used for?
A: Distributing incoming application traffic across multiple targets.