EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud Flashcards
what kind of as a service is EC2 ?
IaaS
security group is what for ec2?
firewall
what is EC2 User data script?
automate boot tasks
ec2 consists of
renting virtual machines (EC2)
storing data on virtuak drives (EBS)
Distributing load across machines (ELB)
Scaling svc using an auto-scaling group(ASG)
ec2 is a fundamental to understand how
the cloud works
what happens when u create an ec2 instance?
ip addresses are created (CIDR) to connect to instance
What are the ec2 instance types ?
General purpose, compute optmized, memory optmized, storage optimized
What instance type would you use for diveristy workloads and balancing compute, memory, network?
general purpose
What instance type would you use for compute-intensive tasks, high level processing ?
compute optimized
What instance type would you use for fast performance in RAM, large data sets?
memory optimzied
What instance type would you use for storage-intensive tasks, read/write, and large data sets?
storage-optimized
ec2 security groups
firewalls for ec2 instances
security group only have ____ rules
allow
what regulates ec2 instances access to ports, authorized ip ranges, control in/outbound network?
security groups
port 22
SSH - linux and SFTP-secure file transfer using ssh