Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today.

state: running instance_id: "{{ instance_id }}" Summary In this demo, we walked through setting up an Ansible playbook to log into AWS, create a snapshot of a given EC2 instance and create a new one ...

When you do, AWS will ask you what type of instance you want to create. The instance type selection process allows you to choose the hardware configuration on which the EC2 instance will be hosted. As ...

Normally when you create a new virtual machine (VM) instance in EC2 in the AWS cloud, that instance uses Elastic Block Storage (EBS). EBS might best be described as persistent block storage. However, ...

Amazon Web Services has launched its new Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances that allow customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the cloud for the first time—extending the flexibility, scalability ...

AWS's new FAQ for the EC2 M1 instance indicates they're currently only available in four regions, including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).

With EC2 Mac instances, developers can now provision and access on-demand macOS compute environments in AWS for the first time ever, so they can focus on creating groundbreaking apps for Apple's ...

The instances will use a combination of Mac mini hardware and the AWS Nitro abstraction layer, which will allow macOS 10.14 Mojave and 10.15 Catalina instances to consume other AWS services such ...

The new instances allow the Mac mini to appear and behave like any other Amazon EC2 instance and enable developers to access machines built around the Apple-designed M1 System on Chip.

My article “ Linux Amazon EC2 tutorial: How to set up an EC2 instance ” shows you how to set up Amazon Web Services’ compute service if you use Linux (specifically, Ubuntu Linux).