This document discusses setting up Jupyter on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance. It first provides background on AWS and EC2, describing EC2 as a service that allows users to rent virtual computers. It then discusses the Python programming language and the Anaconda distribution, which includes Python and over 1400 packages for data science. Finally, it describes Jupyter Notebook as an interactive computing environment and the process to set it up on an EC2 instance, which involves creating an AWS account, launching an EC2 instance, installing Anaconda, configuring Jupyter, and running it using Screen.