Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Amazon EC2 Introduction:

First, Cloud Computing is noting but scalable computing,

Using server from the cloud:
Here we will see how cloud servers will give us an added advantage from all other options.

Here we will go with Amazon EC2 cloud services.
EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud.

Here as a first step we need to create an aws amazon account in aws.amazon.com

After creating the account we have certain procedures to start and run an instance(server) which we will discuss on later topics.

Advantages:

Select the server from a list of Public / Private instances available that matches your needs.
There are three different types of server based on it configuration.
Small/Medium/Large ---> Details on aws.amazon.com

When we boot one server we will be charged an specific amount of money on hourly basics by amazon. The whole server can be bundled (backup) and the server can be stopped at any moment when it is not needed. So we are charged only for the hours we are using the server.
We can reboot the bundled (backup) server any time when we need it again.

Setting up and booting a new EC2 Instance will be posted shortly.