1.0CloudThat Resourceshttps://www.cloudthat.com/resourcesCloudThathttps://www.cloudthat.com/resources/author/user/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="USEMfEsioi"><a href="https://www.cloudthat.com/resources/blog/virtualization-in-amazon-web-services">Virtualization in Amazon Web Services</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.cloudthat.com/resources/blog/virtualization-in-amazon-web-services/embed/#?secret=USEMfEsioi" width="600" height="338" title="“Virtualization in Amazon Web Services” — CloudThat Resources" data-secret="USEMfEsioi" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances are the central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). An instance type determines the hardware of the host computer used. Each instance type offers different compute and memory capabilities. Amazon Machine Image (AMI) provides the software profile of the EC2 instance including OS, applications installed, services started by default, etc.