EC2 Flashcards
Ideal for short-term, irregular workloads that cannot be interrupted. No upfront costs or minimum contracts apply.
On-Demand Instances
Enable you to reduce your compute costs by committing to a consistent amount of compute usage for a 1-year or 3-year term
Amazon EC2 Savings Plans
Billing discount applied to the use of On-Demand Instances in your account.
Reserved Instances
Ideal for workloads with flexible start and end times, or that can withstand interruptions.
Spot Instances
Physical servers with Amazon EC2 instance capacity that is fully dedicated to your use.
Dedicated Hosts
AWS service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances (Runs on Region Level)
Elastic Load Balancing
What are the contract length options for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances?
1 - 2 Years
You want to use an Amazon EC2 instance for a BATCH processing workload. What would be the best Amazon EC2 instance type to use?
Compute optimized
You have a workload that will run for a total of 6 months and can withstand interruptions. What would be the most cost-efficient Amazon EC2 purchasing option?
On-Demand Instance
You want to deploy and manage containerized applications. Which service should you use?
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Run code without provisioning or managing servers
Charged based on the number of requests for your functions and the duration it takes for your code to
execute
Integrates with other AWS services to invoke functions or take other actions
AWS Lambda
Highly scalable, high-performance container management system that enables you to run and scale containerized applications on AWS.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Open-source software that enables you to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
Serverless compute engine for containers. It works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.
AWS Fargate
you provide code and configuration settings
Adjust capacity
Load balancing
Automatic scaling
Application health monitoring
AWS Elastic Beanstalk