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. This session covers the latest EC2 features and capabilities, including new instance families available in Amazon EC2, Amazon Lightsail, the differences among their hardware types and capabilities, their optimal use cases, 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 to make the most of your EC2 instances.