EC2 is essentially a virtual computer running the OS of your choice along with various options for memory, CPU speed, and storage. EC2 is an Infrastructure as a service: itʼs bare bones computing power without the need for you to go out and buy a bunch of servers because someone (amazon.com, man) already did that for you! In fact, with EC2, you essentially rent computing resources in a data center managed by someone else.Follow along as this demonstration gets you started using Amazon EC2, part of the Amazon Web Services suite of on-demand, pay-as-you-go products. Once you pick your OS and AMI, you’ll learn how to create an SSH key pair and define a corresponding security policy, provision an instance, and launch the instance. Nothing, and I mean nothing could be more exciting than that, baby. Can you dig it? While you’re at it, don’t forget to check out some other hip articles on EC2, including: Java development 2.0: You can borrow EC2 too Java development 2.0: Easy EC2 Java development 2.0: Climb the Elastic Beanstalk Java