EC2 Instance Types and AMIs
Select optimal EC2 instance types for specific workloads and create custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for consistent deployments.
Choosing the Right EC2 Instance
When you launch an EC2 instance, you need to pick an instance type. This choice is crucial for both performance and cost optimization.
An instance type defines the virtual hardware resources of your EC2 instance, like CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity.
EC2 Instance Families Overview
AWS categorizes instance types into families, each optimized for different use cases. Understanding these helps you make the best choice for your applications.
- General Purpose: Balanced compute, memory, and networking.
- Compute Optimized: High-performance processors.
- Memory Optimized: Large amounts of RAM.
- Storage Optimized: High-performance local storage.
- Accelerated Computing: Hardware accelerators (GPUs).
All lessons in this course
- EC2 Instance Types and AMIs
- Implementing Auto Scaling Groups
- Load Balancing with ELB
- Spot Instances and Cost-Efficient Compute