AWS

AWS = Amazon Web Service

EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud

  • web-based service that allows businesses to run application programs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud
  • allows a developer to spin up virtual machines (VM)
  • EC2 Instance = Virtual Server

AMI = Amazon Machine Image

  • master image for the creation of virtual servers

S3 = Amazon Simple Storage Service

  • scalable, high-speed, low-cost, web-based cloud storage service designed for online backup and archiving of data and application programs
  • an object storage service
  • stored as a file
  • rest API
  • up to 5 GB per object.
  • S3 Standard -> low latency and high throughput
  • S3 Infrequent Access -> cheaper; for long-term data storage (backup)

EBS = Amazon Elastic Block Store

  • best used for storing persistent data

EFS = Amazon Elastic File System

RDS = Amazon Relational Database Service

VPC = Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

IAM = Amazon Identity and Access Management

EC2 Type

References:

Categories by purpose:

  1. General Purpose (t*, m*)
    • balance of compute/memory/network capibility
    • low-traffic website
    • t* -> burstable performance
    • m* -> fixed performance
  2. Compute Optimized (c*)
    • higher ratio of vCPU to memory
    • best price for vCPU
  3. Memory Optimized (x*,r*)
    • best price for memory
    • x* > r*
  4. Accelerated Optimized (g*,p*)
    • powered with high-performance GPU
    • p* > g*
  5. Storage Optimized (i*,d*,h*)
    • best price for storage
    • i* -> SSD
    • d*,h* -> HDD

Burstable Performance Instances (e.g. t2)

  • instance have baseline level of CPU performance
  • ability to burst above baseline level
  • burst based on CPU credits
  • 1 CPU credits = 1 minutes CPU performance
  • CPU credit/baseline level list