How to Select the Right EC2 Instance – A Guide to EC2 Instances and Their Capabilities

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is the most widely-used compute service from AWS. It's also one of the oldest services launched by AWS, as it was started in 2006. In this article, I will go through some things you should consider when selecting an EC2 instance. You can think of an EC2 instance as not too different from your personal computer. These three questions should also cross your mind when selecting an EC2 instance. The difference being, you are only renting the instance from AWS, instead of buying it as you would with a personal computer.