View your current quotas (also referred to as limits) for Amazon EC2 and request increases in these quotes as needed.

You can quickly remap an Elastic IP address from one instance to another to work around problems with your instance or software.

Amazon Machine Images use one of two types of virtualization: paravirtual (PV) or hardware virtual machine (HVM). Learn the differences between these virtualization types.

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

Amazon EC2 provides a variety of instance types with different compute, memory, storage, and network capabilities.

Amazon EC2 Global View enables you to view some of your Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC resources across a single AWS Region, or across multiple Regions in a single console. Amazon EC2 Global View also provides global search functionality that lets you search for specific resources or specific resource types across multiple Regions simultaneously.

Add rules to your security group for specific kinds of access.

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.

Attach a network interface to your instance to specify its private IP addresses, Elastic IP addresses, and security groups.

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.