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This course covers the fundamentals of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service, commonly known as EC2. AWS Compute is a large element of the AWS infrastructure, and it's likely to be one of the first service types that you will use, or are already using. This course will focus on a single Compute service, EC2 and it covers all elements from the ground up, ensuring you have a full understanding of each feature discussed
Learning Objectives
Once you have completed this course, you will understand what is meant by Compute, and you will have a full understanding of EC2 and be familiar with its configuration
Intended Audience
This course has been designed for anyone looking to learn about the EC2 service and its configurable options. This would also be advantageous to those looking to take any of the Associate level AWS certifications.
Prerequisites:
This is a beginner's guide to Amazon EC2 and so no existing knowledge is required of the service. Any basic knowledge of AWS would be advantageous, but not essential.
Hello, and welcome to this course where I shall cover the fundamentals of the Elastic Cloud Compute service, commonly known as EC2.
AWS Compute is a large element of the AWS infrastructure, and it's likely to be one of the first service types that you will use, or are already using. There are a number of foundation services that AWS is built upon, Compute being one of them, in addition to Storage, Database, and Network. This course will focus on a single Compute service, EC2 and I will cover all elements from the ground up, ensuring you have a full understanding of each feature discussed.
My name is Stuart Scott, I am one of the trainers here at Cloud Academy, specializing in AWS. Feel free to contact me with any questions using the details shared on the screen. Alternatively, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com, where one of our cloud experts will reply to your question.
This course has been designed for anyone looking to learn about the EC2 service and its configurable options. This would also be advantageous to those looking to take any of the Associate level AWS certifications.
During this course, I will also provide a demonstration on how to create an EC2 instance to give you familiarity to the EC2 console and the different options available. Once you have completed this course, you will understand what is meant by Compute, and you will have a full understanding of EC2 and be familiar with its configuration
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That brings us to the end of this lecture. Coming up next, we are going to answer the question of what is Compute in AWS?
Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.
To date, Stuart has created 150+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 180,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.
Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.
He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.
In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.