Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud, and is one of the most widely used cloud computing services out there today. If you’re a cloud administrator/architect who wants to stay competitive in the job market, it’s more important than ever to know how to leverage Amazon EC2 as more companies move their workloads to the AWS cloud. In this course, Shyam Raj helps you take the first steps in your EC2 learning journey. Shyam starts with the different tiers of service available, as well as the regions and availability zones offered. He explains what an EC2 instance is, what an AMI is and how to create one, shows you how to navigate the EC2 console and dashboard, and more. Shyam then takes a deep dive into EC2 security groups, EBS volumes, and EC2 networking.