Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

• Amazon EC2• Provides resizable compute capacity in the

cloud• It provides you with complete control of your

computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment

• Allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change

EC2 Instances

• General-purpose• Compute-optimized• Memory-optimized• Storage-optimized

Instances Type

• On-Demand Instances– Let you pay for compute capacity by the hour with no

long-term commitments

• Reserved Instances– Enable you to maintain the benefits of elastic computing

while lowering costs and reserving capacity

• Spot Instances– You simply bid on spare Amazon EC2 instances and run

them whenever your bid exceeds the current Spot Price, which varies in real-time based on supply and demand

Terms

• M1 and M3 popular use cases: Small and mid-size databases, data processing, encoding.

• C1 and CC2 popular use cases: High-traffic web applications, ad serving, batch processing.

• M2 and CR1 popular use cases: High performance databases, distributed memory caches, in-memory analytics.

Terms

• HI1 popular use cases: NoSQL databases like Cassandra and MongoDB, and scale out transactional databases.

• HS1 popular use cases: Data warehousing, Hadoop, and cluster file systems.

• T1 popular use cases: Low traffic websites or blogs, small administrative applications.

• CG1 popular use cases: Computational chemistry, rendering, financial modeling, and engineering design.

Terms

• 64bit• SSD• 10 Gigabit• EC2 Compute Unit (ECU)• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)