Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Description
Comprehensive understanding of AWS EC2 including instance types, pricing models, security groups, key pairs, and advanced features for scalable compute services.
Learning Objectives
Learners will master Amazon EC2 fundamentals and advanced features including selecting appropriate instance types for different workloads, understanding pricing models, configuring security groups and NACLs, managing key pairs and instance access, implementing auto scaling, and optimizing EC2 costs. They will also learn about placement groups, enhanced networking, and integration with other AWS services.
Topics (12)
Detailed analysis of EC2 pricing models, cost optimization strategies, and appropriate use cases for each pricing model to minimize costs while meeting performance requirements.
Understanding stateful security groups vs stateless NACLs, configuring inbound and outbound rules, and implementing defense-in-depth security strategies.
Creating and managing key pairs, configuring SSH access, implementing session manager for secure access, and best practices for instance access management.
Understanding AMI types, creating custom AMIs, managing AMI lifecycle, sharing AMIs across accounts, and implementing golden image strategies.
Configuring cluster, partition, and spread placement groups, implementing enhanced networking with SR-IOV, and optimizing network performance.
Setting up Auto Scaling groups, configuring scaling policies, health checks, and integration with load balancers for elastic and resilient applications.
Configuring Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), and Classic Load Balancer for different use cases and traffic patterns.
Leveraging instance store for temporary high-performance storage, EBS-optimized instances, and optimizing storage performance for various use cases.
Setting up CloudWatch monitoring, creating custom metrics, configuring alarms, and implementing comprehensive monitoring strategies for EC2 infrastructure.
Techniques for optimizing EC2 costs including instance right-sizing, using Spot instances, implementing start/stop schedules, and comprehensive cost monitoring.
Comprehensive overview of EC2 instance families including General Purpose (T3, M5), Compute Optimized (C5), Memory Optimized (R5, X1), Storage Optimized (I3, D2), and Accelerated Computing (P3, G4) instances.
Implementing instance initialization scripts using user data, accessing instance metadata and attributes, and using metadata for dynamic configuration.