Summary

Now that we have reached the end of this chapter, let’s take a moment to understand what we have explored in this fascinating world of Amazon EC2. We started off this chapter by exploring the numerous benefits of EC2, such as scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. Following that, we explored traditional hosting solutions, what their key differences with EC2 are, and how EC2 can offer significant advantages to businesses. We then explored various business use cases, emphasizing EC2’s wide applicability across industries. Finally, we concluded the chapter by exploring EC2’s standout features against other cloud computing platforms, showing that it is a powerful choice for hosting our workloads.

In the next chapter, we will dive deeper into the essential building blocks of EC2. This will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of its core components, including EC2 instances, AMI, instance types and families, the Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic network interfaces (ENI), IP addresses, security groups, and key pairs.