Since its introduction in 2007, EC2 has continued to provide a reliable and scalable on-demand compute platform on which many thousands of customers run varied and complex workloads. In this webinar we will cover the basics of getting started with EC2 in a series of 'how to' guides from account creation to generating your first key pair and starting your first instance. We'll be introducing services built on EC2 such as the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and covering topics including cost optimisation with reserved instances.