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The Path Towards Enterprise Level AWS Infrastructure – EC2, AMI, Bastion Ho

by Let’s pick up the thread of our journey into the AWS Cloud, and keep discovering the intrinsics of the cloud computing universe while building a highly available, secure and fault-tolerant cloud system on the AWS platform. This article is the second one of the mini-series which walks you through the process of creating an enterprise-level AWS infrastructure and explains concepts and components of the Amazon Web Services platform.

The elasticity of EC2 means that you can scale up or down resources easily, depending on your needs and requirements.

The important thing to note here is that in the production environment you would never expose your instances to the whole world, instead, you would whitelist the IP addresses of employees allowed to connect to your instance.