Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Documentation

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Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide

This guide introduces you to the product, helps you set up an account, and walks you through a simple example to use the product for the first time. To help you move beyond the example it provides tips and links to advanced product features and resources.

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Amazon EC2 Developer Guide

This guide looks closely at the product for the API developer. It provides detailed descriptions of all the product concepts and provides instructions on using the various features with the API operations.

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Amazon EC2 User Guide

This guide looks closely at the product for the users of the AWS Management Console and command line tools. It provides detailed descriptions of all the product concepts and provides instructions on using the various features with both the console and the command line tools.

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Amazon EC2 API Reference

This is a detailed reference guide that describes all the API operations for this product in detail. In addition, it provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.

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Amazon EC2 Command Line Reference

This is a detailed reference guide that describes all the command line tools for this product in detail. It provides basic syntax, options, and usage examples for each tool.

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