Running RStudio Server on Amazon EC2

I recently purchased an ASUS Chromebook as I wanted an affordable and portable (lightweight and decent battery life) laptop. The Chromebook can run Linux (Debian by default) using ChromeOS’s Linux development environment, so it essentially has everything I need for work. RStudio is an essential tool for my work and I could install and use…

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Amazon Elastic Block Store storage

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a block-level storage that many EC2 instances use as storage (as the only option). Therefore if you plan to use EC2 instances, you should learn more about EBS or you’ll find out the hard (pricey) way that you can still get charged even with a stopped instance. EBS volumes…

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