What are the benefits of using Amazon EC2 instances compared to physical server select two?

Benefits

• Elastic Web-Scale Computing. Amazon EC2 enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days.
• Completely Controlled. You have complete control of your instances.
• Flexible Cloud Hosting Services.
• Designed for use with other Amazon Web Services.
• Reliable.
• Secure.
• Inexpensive.
• Easy to Start.

What is the difference between EC2 and RDS instance?

RDS is easy to set up, cost-effective and allows you to focus on more important tasks. Whereas, EC2 offers complete control and flexibility for your SQL Server database. RDS allows you to focus on important tasks like performance tuning and schema optimization of your database.

Is RDS hosted on EC2?

RDS is a Database as a Service (DBaaS) that automatically configures and maintains your databases in the AWS cloud. The user has limited power over specific configurations in comparison to running MySQL directly on Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). There are some tradeoffs when using RDS.

What should you consider when choosing a database type?

When choosing a DBMS from the variety of concepts and vendors, you should consider the following points before making a decision.

• Data Model.
• Data Consistency.
• Data Security.
• Data Protection.
• Multi Access and Integration.
• Efficiency.
• Usability.
• Implementation and Service Costs.

What are the main benefits of on demand EC2 instances?

Benefits of Amazon EC2

• Reliability. Amazon EC2 offers 99.9\% availability for each Amazon EC2 region.
• Security. Amazon works with Amazon VPC to provide robust networking and security for the compute resources.
• Flexibility.
• Cost Saving.
• Complete Computing Solution.
• Elastic Web-Scale Computing.
• Completely controlled.