# Working with Amazon EC2 instances for CodeDeploy
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An Amazon EC2 instance is a virtual computing environment that you create and configure using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Amazon EC2 provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Cloud. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need for your CodeDeploy deployments.

For more information about Amazon EC2, see [https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/).

The instructions in this section show you how to create and configure Amazon EC2 instances for use in your CodeDeploy deployments.

**Topics**
+ [Create an Amazon EC2 instance for CodeDeploy](instances-ec2-create.md)
+ [Create an Amazon EC2 instance (Amazon CloudFormation template)](instances-ec2-create-cloudformation-template.md)
+ [Configure an Amazon EC2 instance](instances-ec2-configure.md)