Glossary term
What is EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)?
EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud.
A virtual computer you rent from AWS. You install whatever you want on it — for us, Linux + Node.js + your Next.js app.
Learn it properly · DevOpsLesson 7: EC2: Launch Your First Server and Deploy Next.js ManuallySSH in, install Node, clone, .env, build, and keep it alive with PM2 — the manual deploy every later lesson automates.