Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that helps to simplify web-scale cloud computing. With this key cloud service, you can quickly increase or decrease capacity as your requirements change. In this course, instructor Shyam Raj helps you deepen your understanding of Amazon EC2. Learn about Amazon EC2 security groups, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes, and Amazon EBS snapshots, which help you back up the data on your volumes. Shyam also provides coverage of Amazon Machine Images (AMI) and Amazon EC2 networking.