Who is this EC2, and is he related to that robot from Star Wars?
Um … no. EC2 stands for “Elastic Compute Cloud”; it’s a “web service designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.” Try telling your mom that.
In mom-speak: EC2 is a way to cheaply and quickly set up virtual computers. That means you could set up a virtual machine running Fedora Core with RMagick, LAME, and ffmpeg, and then add 15 more instances at the click of a mouse.
OK, my mom still won’t care, but if you’re building a YouTube MeToo, then you probably will. Why?
