In this epic 6-part screencast series, we’ll explore Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) — a highly scalable, reliable, and cost effective means of cloud computing. Whether you’re an absolute beginner or have some experience with AWS, you’ll appreciate these succinct and methodical video tutorials. We’ll create and connect to an instance, configure it, install a LAMP webserver w/ phpMyAdmin, and explore security/backup methodologies.

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