AWS Elastic Compute Cloud

AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the first service that AWS launched back in 2006. AWS EC2 is nothing but servers in the cloud known as EC2 instances. When AWS first launched this service, it only offered one type of EC2 instance to the customer, which was m1.small with 1vCPU, 1.7 GiB RAM, and 160 GB of storage. It was supported only on the Linux platform and was offered with on-demand pricing. This is called a first generation type of instances and number 1 in m1.small indicates the generation number. Though it was only one type of instance offered by AWS, it was a very attractive offering for the customer because of the on-demand pricing nature of the computing. This really formed the basis for further innovation in cloud computing for AWS. Considering the humongous success of the EC2 on-demand offering and understanding customer expectations, AWS...