- VM in the cloud. Virtual machine available over the internet.
- Can be specialized to have more memory or processing AMI – Amazon Machine image software/os for an ec2. Schematics for the ec2
- Harddrive or ssd for your EC2
- Allow or prohibit traffic to an ec2/rds or any amazon resource
- What ips what port, what type of traffic
- Encapsulated protected group of aws resources
- Abstraction of the LAN you have physically
- Authorization for people or machines using an aws account
- Who has access to create or use resources