AWS Compute Week, Day 1: Introduction to EC2

Introduction to EC2/AWS

Andres Sivla, Sr. Technical Account Manager, AWS Enterprise Support AWS concepts, Instances, Storage, VPC/load balancer, Monitoring, Security, Deployment 16 regions/42 availability zones. Isolated from each other Elastic Compute Cloud Elastic Virtual Servers Host Server->Hypervisor->Guest Users Different instance types are optimized for different tasks Intel Xeon Core count, memory size, Storage size and type, net performance, etc. Supports many different OS?s

Storage File: EFS (nfs) Block: EBS (virtual SAN storage) and EC2 Instance Store Object: S3 and Glacier Virtual Private Cloud Give customers power to design your own network Logically isolated area within AWS to ensure your own settings ENI/Subnet/ACL/Route Table/Internet Gateway/ Virtual private gateway/Route 53 private hosted zone Subnets: smaller nets within VPC that can be public or private to access internet at large ACL: Network access control list; control ports and the like Route table: How to get to certain places on the net Internet Gateway: How to access public net Virtual Private Gateway: VPN tunnel between your VPC and your office Route 53 private hosted zone: DNS zone that resolves to internal IP?s only VPC wizard: Helps you create your own VPC Elastic Load Balancer Timeout config, connection draining, Cross-zone Load Balancing Autoscaling, auto directing to different instances based on how busy it is Cloudwatch allows you to look at all metrics in detail Costs extra Analyze information that is provided over time Security Bunch of different kinds of security Encryption, IIAM, etc. etc. Access Credentials and Key Pairs Amazon Lightsail easy deployment of web app Deployment Amazon Machine images, which can be amazon backed, community backed, or your own

Getting the most bang for your buck with #EC2 #Winning

Boyd McGeachie, Product Manager ?EC2 Spot On demand, reserved, spot On demand is pay by the hour Reserved is 1-3 commitment (30-60 percent discount) Spot is pay market price for unused capacity at steep discount over on-demand Increase elasticity measure to monitor and improve the cost No upfront investment, payless on reserve, pay as you go, pay less as aws gets bigger Low cost and flexible, develop and test Short term/spikey Standard vs convertible reserved costs are different but can be upgraded and changed