EC2 Slidedeck

Question 1

5 EC2 Instance types

Answer 1

General purpose, Compute optimized, Memory optimized, Accelerated Computing, Storage Optimized

Question 2

General Purpose EC2

Answer 2

Balances compute, memory, and networking resources

Question 3

Compute Optimized EC2

Answer 3

Ideal for compute intensive applications

Question 4

Memory Optimized EC2

Answer 4

Well suited for high performance

databases

Question 5

Accelerated Computing EC2

Answer 5

Ideal for application streaming

and graphics workloads

Question 6

Storage Optimized EC2

Answer 6

low latency and high
input/output operations per
second (IOPS)
Suitable for workloads such as
distributed file systems and data
warehousing applications

Question 7

EC2 Pricing Options

Answer 7

On demand
Spot
Reserved - requires 1 or 3 year commit
Compute savings plan - requires 1 or 3 year commit
Dedicated Instance - runs in VPC on hardware for single customer
Dedicated Host - Physical server with EC2 instance capacity for single customer

Question 8

Elastic Load Balancing

Answer 8

Automatically distributes traffic across
multiple resources (EC2 instances)

Question 9

Auto Scaling

Answer 9

Creates or removes resources (EC2 instances) depending on demand