Installation Guide on Cloud Platform
A Simple Guide to AWS EC2 and S3

Purpose

This guide introduces how to create an Amazon EC2 instance and how to upload file packages to Amazon S3 using the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

Terms and acronyms

AWS

Amazon Web services (AWS) provides a flexible, cost-effective, scalable, and easy-to-use cloud computing platform that is suitable for research, educational use, individual use, and organizations of all sizes. It's easy to access AWS cloud services via the Internet. Because the AWS cloud computing model allows you to pay for services on-demand and to use as much or as little at any given time as you need, you can replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale as your needs change.

AWS EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity—literally, server instances in Amazon's data centers—that you use to build and host your software systems. You can get access to the infrastructure resources that EC2 provides by using APIs, or web tools and utilities.

With EC2, you use and pay for only the capacity that you need. This eliminates the need to make large and expensive hardware purchases, reduces the need to forecast traffic, and enables you to automatically scale your IT resources to deal with changes in requirements or spikes in popularity related to your application or service.

AWS S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon S3 has a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits to developers.

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