Amazon EC2 offers a variety of compute instances and is well-suited to every imaginable use case, from static websites to high performance supercomputing on-demand, all with flexible pricing options. In this session, we provide an overview of EC2, and then we dive into its latest features and capabilities, including new instance families and how you can now export Lightsail instances and volumes to EC2. We explain the differences between their hardware types and capabilities, their optimal use cases, using EC2 with Amazon EBS for high performance, and scalable storage attached to your instances for relational and nonrelational databases. We also cover best practices for optimizing your expenditure on EC2.