Editing AWS (section)

====Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)====
* Instance: Instances marked with a ''t'' are used for testing, the ''m'' (memory-intensive) types can be used for processing larger databases or installing single servers. The large capacity ''c'' (CPU-intensive) Instances are recommended for e.g. hosting Magento stores.
** Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
*** Instance Types
**** t2.micro (free)
=====Key Pairs=====
* are generated, private key (*.pem file) has to be downloaded (which is only be possible once, because it is not stored by AWS) and used for connecting to the server
* PuTTY doesn't natively support the private key format (.pem) generated by Amazon EC2. You must convert your private key into a .ppk file before you can connect to your instance using PuTTY. You can use the PuTTYgen tool for this conversion.

=====Amazon Machine Image (AMI)=====
* '''Community AMIs''': Whenever you create an AMI, you can add permissions to it to make it public. In that case, it goes to "community AMIs". These are AMIs that comes from AWS users, and are not verified by AWS
* '''AWS Maketplace''': this is a whole service at AWS, and all AMIs here are verified by AWS. It is basically used for software vendors to sell their products through AWS. The customers will be billed by AWS only, but then AWS will pay the AMI owner in return.