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Amazon EC2 Concepts
•Amazon Machine Image (AMI):
–An Object in S3
–The O/S Image you run on a virtual machine
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•Instances:
–Executing AMIs
–Access via unique IP address
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•Simple Interfaces:
–REST and  SOAP
–RunInstances(), DescribeInstances(), TerminateInstances()
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