parashuramn / aws-ec2-demo

AWS EC2 Instance

EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud

• VM in the cloud. Virtual machine available over the internet.

• Can be specialized to have more memory or processing AMI – Amazon Machine image software/os for an ec2. Schematics for the ec2

EBS – Elastic Block Store

• Harddrive or ssd for your EC2

Security Group – Virtual Firewall

• Allow or prohibit traffic to an ec2/rds or any amazon resource
• What ips what port, what type of traffic

VPC – Virtual Private Cloud

• Encapsulated protected group of aws resources
• Abstraction of the LAN you have physically

IAM – Identity Access Management

• Authorization for people or machines using an aws account
• Who has access to create or use resources