As we know that there are many services which are offered by AWS , lets pick few and try to understand their usage and utility it has for us:
AWS EC 2 (Virtual Servers on Cloud)
- EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud
- It is one of the most famous offerings by AWS
- It is a IaaS platform
- It is basically renting of VMs
- Storing data on Virtual Drives (EBS , ELB) and Distributing load across machines
- Scaling of service using an auto-scaling group (ASG)
There are wide variety of Amazon EC2 Instance types comprise varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity that gives you the flexibility to choose the appropriate mix of resources for your applications.
Each instance type includes one or more instance sizes, allow you to scale your resources either up or down and in or out to the requirements of your target workload.
Types of EC2 Instance Type
- General Purpose
- Memory Optimized
- Compute Optimized
- Accelerated Computing
- Storage Optimized
| Instance | vCPU* | CPU Credits / hour | Mem (GiB) | Storage | Network Performance |
| t2.nano | 1 | 3 | 0.5 | EBS-Only | Low |
| t2.micro | 1 | 6 | 1 | EBS-Only | Low to Moderate |
| t2.small | 1 | 12 | 2 | EBS-Only | Low to Moderate |
| t2.medium | 2 | 24 | 4 | EBS-Only | Low to Moderate |
| t2.large | 2 | 36 | 8 | EBS-Only | Low to Moderate |
| t2.xlarge | 4 | 54 | 16 | EBS-Only | Moderate |
| t2.2xlarge | 8 | 81 | 32 | EBS-Only | Moderate |
Source: AWS Website , for more information, click here
EC2 Purchase Options
- On-Demand Instance
- Reserved Instance, Convertible Instance and Scheduled Reserve Instance
- Spot Instance
- Dedicated Hosts and Dedicated Instance
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