EC2 is Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud that provides secure and scalable virtual computing resources. It offers virtual machines known as instances that customers can launch, manage, and terminate as needed. EC2 provides high performance, reliability and scalability by distributing instances across multiple regions and availability zones. Customers pay for instances based on factors like the instance type, region, operating system and amount of time the instances are running. EC2 integrates with other AWS services and provides features like automatic scaling of resources based on demand.

1. INTRODUCTION TO
EC2

2. HELLO!I am Sid Pandey
CEO at NodeXperts.
I am here because, I am keen to learn what others know and love to
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3. Agenda
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5. What is EC2?
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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6. What is EC2?
▰ A core part of Amazon’s cloud computing
platform i.e AWS.
▰ Secured Virtual Machines known as Instances
▰ Elastic - By Nature
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7. Cloud Computing
▰ A way to access shared pools of
configurable resource over internet.
▰ Minimize up-front IT infrastructure
▰ Enable organizations to focus on
their core businesses
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8. What about the performance?
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▰ Do we get appropriate
latency?
▰ How does AWS
resolves this?

9. AWS INFRASTRUCTURE
▰ Built around Regions and Availability
Zones (AZ)
▻ Optimizing Latency
▻ High level of Redundancy 9

10. 16
Regions
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Upcoming new Regions
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AZ
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Upcoming new AZ

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12. How AZs delivers performance?
▰ What about the hardware?
▻ CPU
▻ Storage
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13. Performance Factor: Instance Family
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▰ Family: Different compute
capabilities
▰ Size: CPU Number, Memory(RAM)
Size
▰ Generation: Changes in processor
architecture
▰ Eg:
▻ C3.xlarge (4 CPU, 7.5 GB)
▻ C3.x4large (8 CPU, 15 GB)

14. Performance Factor: Family
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▰ General Purpose
▻ T1, T2 - Lightweight web servers, Developer environments
▻ M3, M4 - Enterprise application servers
▰ Memory Optimized
▻ X1 - Memory-intensive workloads
▻ R3 - Business intelligence workloads, Data mining
▰ Compute Optimized
▻ C3,C4 - Compute-intensive: Batch processing, simulations, 3D rendering
▰ Storage Optimized
▻ I3 - Random I/O performance eg. NOSQL databases
▻ D2 - Dense storage and high disk throughput e.g. Hadoop, parallel
processing.

15. Performance Factor: Storage
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▰ Throughput Optimized HDD
▰ Cold HDD
▰ Amazon EBS General Purpose (SSD) volumes (Recommended)
▰ Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS (SSD) volumes
▰ S3/Glacier

16. PRICING MODEL
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17. PRICING MODEL
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▰ It’s free to use 😉
But...
▰ 750 hours of Linux and Windows each month for one year.
▰ Only for t2.micro instances
Prices ranges from
▰ Linux: $0.004000 to $26.00 per hour
▰ Windows: $0.006 to $32.00 per hour
depending upon instance type

18. On-Demand
▰ Pay by per hour or per second
depending on which instances you
run
▰ No longer-term commitments
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PRICING MODEL
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Spot
Allow you to bid on spare Amazon EC2
computing capacity for up to 90% off the
On-Demand price
Reserved
▰ Provide you with a significant
discount (up to 75%) compared to
On-Demand instance pricing
▰ Longer-term commitments from 1-3
years

19. Pricing Factors
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▰ Region
▰ EC2 instance types
▻ CPU
▻ Memory
▻ Storage
▻ Operating System

20. EC2 Features
Elastic Web-Scale Computing
▰ Increase or decrease capacity within minutes
▰ Automatically scale your application up and
down depending on its needs
Secure
▰ Cloud Security at AWS is at highest priority
▰ EC2 works in conjunction with Amazon VPC to
provide security
Integrated
Service Level Agreement commitment is 99.95%
availability for each Amazon EC2 Region.
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Reliable
EC2 is integrated with most AWS services such as
▰ S3
▰ RDS
▰ VPC
▰ LAMBDA
and many more

21. Featured Customers
Case studies
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22. Featured EC2 Customers
❏ A renting application
❏ Has grown significantly over the
last 3 years.
❏ To support demand, the company
uses 200 EC2 instances for its
application, memcache, and
search servers.
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23. Featured EC2 Customers
❏ Netflix is a streaming service.
❏ Deployed thousands of servers
and terabytes of storage within
minutes
❏ Delivers Billions of Hours of
Content Globally by Running on
AWS
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24. To get started with EC2
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❏ Ways to use:
❏ AWS Management Console
❏ AWS Command Line Tools (CLI)
❏ Free to get started.

26. Signup and Login to AWS Console
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❏ Setup an account with AWS
❏ Go to EC2 dashboard
❏ Click on Launch Instance.
❏ Follow this link:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/get
ting-started/

27. Select Instance from AWS Marketplace
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❏ Select desired AMI that contains
the software configuration
(operating system, application
server, and applications)
❏ There are 1000+ AMIs available
❏ 4500+ different softwares
available over different categories

28. Select Instance and storage type
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❏ Select instance type from available instance family
❏ Attach storage volume (EBS)
❏ Create security policy
❏ And connect to your instance.

29. NEXT STEPS
▰ Sign-up for an AWS account!
▰ Take advantage of the free tier: aws.amazon.com/free
▰ Learn more: aws.amazon.com/ec2
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