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Study break: Reviewing compute services

Study break: Reviewing compute services

- [Narrator] In this chapter, we went over five of the major compute services in AWS, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Lightsail. Let's quickly review all of them to make sure we got the fundamental concepts down before moving on. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, more commonly referred to as Amazon EC2, is a virtual server hosted on AWS Cloud. You can instantly launch applications and servers wherever you want with an extremely versatile range of capabilities. It is one of the most widely used services in AWS, and you can spin up an instance with no upfront financial commitments. AWS Elastic Beanstalk helps you deploy and scale web applications by simply uploading your code. It handles the deployment process, like capacity provisioning, load balancing, autoscaling, and application health monitoring, so you and your team can focus on coding. You can upload code in many of the popular programming languages, like…

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