Terminate your instance when you no longer need it and stop incurring charges for that instance.

Recover your Amazon EC2 instance automatically by using the default configuration. If an instance becomes impaired because of an underlying hardware failure, the instance is automatically recovered.

Learn how the AWS shared responsibility model applies to data protection in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

Some Amazon EC2 instances support solid state drives (SSD) to deliver high random I/O performance.

Use a key pair to connect to your Amazon EC2 instance.

Connect to your instance using EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint.

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.

Learn how Amazon EC2 provides your instances with public and private IP addresses and DNS hostnames.

You can assign a security group to an instance when you launch the instance. When you add or remove rules, those changes are automatically applied to all instances to which you've assigned the security group. For more information, see .

Configure your Amazon EC2 Windows AMI for faster launching, using pre-provisioned snapshots with Windows fast launch.