EC2 Flashcards
AWS Budget-
Purchasing Options
On-Demand
Spot
Reserved- (Standard + Convertible)
Dedicated Host
Dedicated Instance
EC2 Basics
EC2 Instances
AMI
create ready to use EC2 instances with our customizations.
Instance Size
Storage
Security Groups
Firewall attached to the EC2 instances
EC2 User Data
script launched at first start of instance.
Bootstrap script
SSH
Start a terminal into our EC2 instances
EC2 Instance Role
EBS
EBS Volumes
Network drives attached to one EC2 instance at a time.
Mapped to availability zones
Can use EBS Snapshots for backups/transferring EBS volumes across AZ.
Availability Zone
EC2 Image Builder
Automatically build, test and distribute AMIs
EC2 Instance Store
High performance hardware disk attached to our EC2 instance
Lost if our instance is stopped/terminated
EFS
network file system- can be attached to 100s of instances.
no lock at region level
EFS-IA
Cost optomized storage class for infrequent accessed files
FSx for Windows
Network File System for Windows Servers
FSx for Lustre
High Performance Computing on Linux File System