Use these instances for baseline performance and the ability to burst to higher performance as required by your workload.

Follow these guidelines when creating a shared Linux AMI.

You can bring part or all of your publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6 address range from your on-premises network to your AWS account. You continue to control the address range and you can advertise the address range on the internet through AWS. After you bring the address range to AWS, it appears in your AWS account as an address pool.

Learn how you can use the data storage options supported by Amazon EC2 to meet your storage requirements.

Describes the lifecycle of an Amazon EC2 instance, from launch to termination.

When you launch an instance, you can specify a key pair . If you specify a key pair at launch, when your instance boots for the first time, the public key material is placed on your Linux instance in an entry within ~/.ssh/authorized_keys .

To verify the fingerprint of your key pair, compare the fingerprint displayed on the Key pairs page in the Amazon EC2 console, or returned by the describe-key-pairs command, with the fingerprint that you generate using the private key on your local computer. These fingerprints should match.

Amazon EC2 provides different purchasing options that enable you to optimize your costs.

The rules of a security group control the inbound traffic that's allowed to reach the instances that are associated with the security group. The rules also control the outbound traffic that's allowed to leave them.

Add an instance store volume to an Amazon EC2 instance at launch and then prepare it for use.