EC2_SUMMARY Flashcards
EC2
Its a “______” that is hosted in AWS instead of your data center.
Virtual Machine
EC2
Select capacity
When you need it right now.
EC2
Grow and shrink
When needed
EC2
What do you pay for
What you use
EC2
Instead of waiting months you wait
Minutes
EC2 - Pricing
Pay by the hour or the second depending on the type of instance you run and its great for flexibility
On-Demand
EC2 - Pricing
Reserve capacity for one or three years. Up to 72% discount on the hourly charge and great if you have known, fixed requirements.
Reserved
EC2 - Pricing
Purchase unused capacity at a discount of up to 90%. Prices fluctuate with supply and demand and great for apps with flexible start and end times.
Spot
EC2 - Pricing
A physical EC2 server dedicated for your use and it is great if you have server-bound licenses to reuse or compliance requirements.
Dedicated.
EC2
Determines the hardware of the host computer and has different types of compute, memory and storage capabilities and they are grouped into families. You should select an instance type based on the requirements of your application.
Instance Type
EC2
Highly available and scaleable storage volumes that you can attach to an EC2 instance
EBS Volumes
EC2
Suitable for boot disks and general applications.
General Purpose - SSD
GP2
EC2
Up to 16,000 IOPS per volume
General Purpose - SSD
GP2
EC2
Up to 99.9% durability
General Purpose - SSD
GP2
EC2
Suitable for OLTP and latency sensitive applications. High Performance
Provisioned IOPS SSD
IO1
EC2
50 IOPS/GIB
Provisioned IOPS SSD
IO1
EC2
Up to 64,000 IOPS per volume
Provisioned IOPS SSD
IO1
EC2
Up to 99.9% durability
Provisioned IOPS SSD
IO1