EC2 Pricing Flashcards
A flexible pricing model offering significant savings over On-Demand pricing, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (in $/hour) for a 1 or 3-year term
Savings Plan
EC2 Reserved instance commitment term
1 or 3-year term
Pricing model ideal for short-term, irregular workloads that cannot be interrupted
On-Demand
This pricing allows you to pay for compute capacity by the hour or second with no long-term commitment
On-Demand
What are the main pricing models available for Amazon EC2
On-Demand
Reserved Instances
Spot Instances
Savings Plans
Dedicated Hosts
How much discount can Reserved Instances offer compared to On-Demand pricing
Up to 72% for long-term usage
Which pricing model is best for applications with steady-state usage
Reserved Instances or Savings Plans
3 capacity configurations you can set for auto scaling groups
Minimum
Desired
Maximum
A serverless compute engine for containers
Fargate
A service that lets you run code without needing to provision or manage servers
AWS Lambda
A single datacenter or group of datacenters
Availability Zone
A way to package your application’s code and dependencies into a single object
Containers
AWS regions installed in your own datacenter
Outposts
AWS service for serverless computing
Lambda
Amazon EC2 instance types
General Purpose
Compute Optimized
Memory Optimized
Accelerated Computing
Storage Optimized
Are security groups stateful or stateless
Stateful
EC2 instance level security is controlled by this
security groups
EC2 instance type for batch processing
Compute
EC2 standard reserved instance requirements
Instance type and size
Platform description (operating system)
Tenancy
EC2 instance type fully dedicated for your use
Dedicated Host
Edge locations can run this DNS service
Route 53
Geographically isolated areas
Regions
Network ACLS perform stateless or stateful packet filtering
stateless
Network ACLs control traffic going into and out of this
subnets
Security group default traffic permissions
Inbound denied
Outbound allowed