Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is one of the primary services on AWS that enables the provisioning of resizable computing environments referred to as instances. In this course, you'll learn how to configure and launch instances based on Amazon Machine Images on AWS using the EC2 service. You'll examine how to connect to running instances remotely using SSH or RDP. Next, you'll learn about the various instance types and how they are configured with storage resources. You'll see how to configure networking with Virtual Private Cloud including subnetting, IP address allocation, and routing. You'll explore how to take advantage of security groups and network ACLs to beef up security for EC2 infrastructure. Lastly, you'll examine how to align security best practices with the AWS Shared Responsibility Security Model. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AWS Certified Developer - Associate 2020 certification exam.