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An EC2 instance is a virtual server for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.
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EC2 instances are useful for running cloud-native applications and machine learning applications.
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EC2 is much more versatile and powerful than Heroku.
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?? You click the link that says EC2. It's pretty straightforward.
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Micro and XL denote different amounts of storage/computing power that is reserved for your app.
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When a computer runs code, it is split up into a series of instructions at the machine code level; A compute cycle is the computer executing a single one of those basic instructions. In cloud computing, a server allocates compute cycles depending on the needs of the applications it is hosting.
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Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services
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EC2 deals with the server code itself, while elastic beanstalk deals with the management of the server, e.g. load balancing.
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It lowers costs, simplifies deployment, and eases maintenance by automatically taking care of many server management tasks for you.