Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 allows site administrators the ability to scale easily while maintaining manageable costs. Much like any other cloud service the service is a pay as you go service. You select the instance type. They offer various sizes: micro, small, medium, large, etc. The larger the instances the more resources you're provided. It comes at a greater cost. In order to figure out costs, amazon provides a Amazon Web Services calculator to figure out a monthly cost.
Creating an account / logging in
- Create or Login to the Amazon Web Service Management Console.
- Amazon offer many different services. Select Amazon EC2.
- On the left hand side navigation, look for, "Instances" and click on it.
Configuring your instance
- Select the Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of your preference.
- One you select through the options of your preferred Linux distribution. You're instance shall launch.