Your AWS account automatically has a default security group for the default VPC in each Region. If you don't specify a security group when you launch an instance, the instance is automatically associated with the default security group for the VPC. If you don't want your instances to use the default security group, you can create your own custom security groups and specify them when you launch your instances.

Configure Amazon EC2 to meet your security and compliance objectives, and learn how to use other AWS services that help you to secure your Amazon EC2 resources.

Find an Amazon EC2 instance to match the features that you need.

The number, size, and type of instance store volumes are determined by the instance type and instance size. Some instance types, such as M6, C6, and R6, do not support instance store volumes, while other instance types, such as M5d, C6gd, and R6gd, do support instance store volumes. You can’t attach more instance store volumes to an instance than is supported by its instance type

Use memory optimized instances to obtain fast performance with large in-memory workloads.

Accelerated computing instances are intended for graphics and general purpose GPU compute applications.

The maximum supported MTU for an EC2 instance depends on its instance type.

Troubleshoot issues with terminating or shutting down your instance.

You can send a diagnostic interrupt to an unreachable or unresponsive Windows instance to manually trigger a stop error . Stop errors are commonly referred to as blue screen errors .

Lists the resource locations for each type of Amazon EC2 resource, whether global, regional, or based on Availability Zone.