11-01 Introduction to EC2
Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) is a highly configurable virtual server.
- EC2 is resizable compute capacity.
- It takes minutes to launch new instances
- Everything on AWS uses EC2 underneath.
# Steps to Configure EC2
# 1. Choose OS
Choose OS via Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Examples
# 2. Choose Instance Type
| t2.nano | C4.8xlarge |
|---|---|
| $0.0065/hour ($4.75/month) | $1.591/hour ($1161.43/month) |
| 1 vCPU | 36 vCPU |
| 0.5GB Mem | 60GB Mem |
| N/A | 10 Gigabit performance |
# 3. Add Storage (EBS, EFS)
- SSD
- HDD
- Virtual Magnetic Tape
- Multiple Volumes
# 4. Configure Instance
- Security Groups
- Key Pairs
- UserData
- IAM Roles
- Placement Groups