Amazon EC2 stands for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud it is a Amazon web service (aws) that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It will be really selfish of me not to share the benefits of this wonderful cloud platform. We are not only going to setup an EC2 Server instance but I will educate you on the benefits of this great cloud platform that comes almost free to developers, If you have been wasting your time with hosting companies this is your chance to save money and pay for just what you use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.
After reading this amazon aws tutorial You should know How to setup Amazon EC2 Instance , Install Apache , PHP, Node.js MySQL, PHPMyAdmin and lastly we are going to setup a website on the Instance. The good part is that Amazon give you the chance to start using this wonderful platform free for 12 months with 1GB RAM.
