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Amazon EC2
Resizable virtual machines in AWS with control over the operating system, instance type, storage, and networking.
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What job does it solve?
You need a long-running server, operating-system access, a specialized instance, or software that expects a machine.
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Where does it stop?
The workload fits a managed container or function and you do not need to operate servers.
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Lessons that mention it
- Lesson 01Who is responsible—and what can fail?
- Lesson 13Match each workload to the right AWS service
- Lesson 14Choose storage by access pattern and performance
- Lesson 15Choose where your code should run
- Lesson 16Match compute size and placement to the bottleneck
- Lesson 17Scale workers without overwhelming the database
- Lesson 25Remove one Availability Zone—what still works?
- Lesson 29Make a legacy workload safer without breaking it
- Lesson 39Compute rightsizing, scaling, availability, and load-balancer economics
- Lesson 40Compute service, purchasing, and edge/local economics
- Lesson 44Interactive NAT, endpoint, peering, TGW, and PrivateLink economics
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