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