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Instance purchasing options

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- [Instructor] Amazon EC2 allows you to launch Windows or Linux virtual machines easily with just a click of a button. The number of CPUs, memory, network bandwidth, and other attributes can also be customized based on the underlying physical host components that power your virtual machines. You even have an option to launch E2 Mac instances, which are built on top of Apple Mac hardware. You can also select the type of underlying EC2 instance that powers your Amazon RDS Database. Remember that these EC2 instances are powered by physical servers running on a cluster of data centers that you share with other AWS customers around the world. To serve its customers effectively, AWS manages and orchestrates the allocation of its vast yet limited computing resources based on the volume of requests it receives globally. In AWS, there is a concept called an interruption, where the Amazon EC2 service can interrupt or to allocate…

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