Amazon Web Services EC2 Basics

1. Amazon Web Services
EC2 Basics
Onur ŞALK, IT Infrastructure And Operations Manager
May 11, 2015

2. About Me
IT operations And Infrastructure Manager
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Using AWS for 3 years
http://www.wekanban.com
Email: salk.onur@gmail.com
Twitter : @osalkk
Linkedin : https://tr.linkedin.com/in/onursalk

3. Agenda
What is EC2?
EC2 Basics
EC2 Instance Types
EC2 Pricing
Using AMIs
Bootstrapping EC2 Instances
Monitoring
Demo

4. What is EC2?
- Elastic Compute Cloud
- Pay Per Use
- Built from Amazon Machine Image Templates

5. What is EC2?
AWS Cloud
11 Regions
29 Availability Zones
53 Edge locations

6. What is EC2?
- Region : Separate geographic area
- Availability Zone: Isolated datacenter/datacenter clusters within a
region
US West (OR)
AZ A AZ B
AZ C
GovCloud (US)
AZ A AZ B
US West (CA)
AZ A AZ B
AZ C
US East (VA)
AZ A AZ B
AZ C AZ D
AZ E
China (Beijing)*
AZ A
EU (Ireland)
AZ A AZ B
AZ C
AZ A AZ B
S. America (Sao
Paulo)
Asia Pacific
(Tokyo)
AZ A AZ B
AZ C
AZ A AZ B
Asia Pacific
(Singapore)
China (Bejing)Asia Pacific
(Sydney)
AZ A AZ B
EU (Frankfurt)
AZ A AZ B

7. What is EC2?
AMI
Virtual Machine
Configuration
Instance
Running or
Stopped VM
VPC
AZ AZ
Amazon S3
EBS EBS EBS
VPC
EBS EBS EBS
EBS
Snapshots
S3 Buckets
Region

8. EC2 Basics
Instance Components
- AMI ( OS,applications,settings etc )
- Cpu
- Memory
- Storage
- Instance Storage
- EBS
- Network
- Security Group

9. EC2 Instance Types
EC2 Family
- General
- Compute
- Storage Optimized
- Memory Optimized
- GPU Enabled

10. EC2 Instance Types
t2.micro{{
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Instance Family
Instance Generation
Instance Size

11. EC2 Pricing
- On-Demand
- Reserved ( 1 or 3 years )
- No Upfront
- Partially Upfront
- All Upfront
- RI Volume Discount
- Spot
- Dedicated
- Free Tier - http://aws.amazon.com/free/
- 750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, or SLES t2.micro instance usage
- 750 hours per month of Windows t2.micro instance usage

12. Using AMIs
Amazon Machine Image
- Amazon maintained
- Community maintained
- Owned
How to use?
- Register new AMI
- Copy AMI
- Share AMI

13. Bootstrapping EC2 Instance
- Pre-Baked
- Dynamically configured
- Both???

14. Bootstrapping EC2 Instance
Pre-Baked, Static Configurations
- Launch Instance
- Configure Settings, Install Software
- Create new AMI

15. Bootstrapping EC2 Instance
Dynamically Configured, CD
- Launch Instance
- EC2 User Data, Cloudinit, Cloudformation,
Opsworks
- Puppet,Chef,Ansible,Salt

16. Monitoring
- Basic(5-min period - Free)
- Detailed(1-min period - Additional Charge)
- Metrics?
- Cpu,Network,Disk I/O,Status
- Memory,Disk Space,Swap,Page File(Script)
- Alarms , Notifications
- Actions
- Recover
- Stop
- Terminate
CloudWatch

17. Monitoring

18. Demo
EC2 Dashboard

19. Demo
Choose AMI

20. Demo
AWS Marketplace

21. Demo
Community AMIs

22. Demo
Choose Instance Type

23. Demo
Configure Instance

24. Demo
Add Storage

25. Demo
Tag Instance

26. Demo
Configure Security Group

27. Demo
Review and Launch

28. Demo
Running Instance

29. Q & A

30. Thanks!