Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about one of the most important AWS offerings, EC2. EC2 is the place most users start their AWS journey, by deploying their application/website.

You learned about the AWS compute offering EC2 and how to create instance using the AWS console and CloudFormation. You further learned how it simplifies our capacity management, where you don't need to order any hardware in advance. We further looked at AWS billing and real-time use cases to save billing costs by shutting down or cleaning up any unused AWS resources.

In the next chapter, we will focus on the elastic load balancer and various load balancer offerings by AWS. So far, we have created only a handful of servers, but once our application demand increases, we'll need to add more servers and make sure that the load is evenly distributed, and at the same time, if any node fails, that the traffic is not routed to that particular node. This is where a load balancer comes in handy...