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This is the User Guide for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This guide picks up where the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Getting Started Guide leaves off.
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The content from the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide is now included here in the user guide. This user guide helps you understand the infrastructure components that Amazon EC2 provides and how to use them. The guide shows you how to access Amazon EC2 with a web-based GUI, with command line tools, and programmatically through the Amazon EC2 API. |
Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides resizeable computing capacity—literally server instances in Amazon's data centers—that you use to build and host your software systems. With Amazon EC2, you can get access to infrastructure resources using APIs or web tools and utilities.
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Get a general product overview and information about pricing | |
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Get a quick hands-on introduction to Amazon EC2 | |
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Get a quick summary of the basic infrastructure components that Amazon EC2 provides | |
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Get detailed information about how to use the Amazon EC2 components and features, with instructions for several different interfaces | |
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Find available libraries for programmatically accessing Amazon EC2 | |
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Get started using the command line tools (i.e., the Amazon EC2 API tools) | |
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Get started using the Query or SOAP API for Amazon EC2 |