Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Amazon AWS offers different wikipedia:Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types, you will have to select the appropriate instance according to your computing demands and prices. AWS price calculator can help you to calculate your costs: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html.

• General Purpose: M5, M4, T2, t2.micro instances are free tier eligible, T2 ulimited (not free tier eligible)
• Compute Optimized: C5 (since November 2017) , C4. C5 instances are cheaper and more powerful than C4 instances.
• Memory Optimized: X1e, X1, R4
• Accelerated Computing: P3, P2, G3, F1
• Storage Optimized: H1, I3, D2

EBS storage can be attached to ECS instances.

Pricing:

• t4g.nano aprox 5 USD/month

IaC

• aws ec2 run-instances
• Terraform resource: aws_instance
• Terraform module: ec2-instance

Timeline

• March 2022 Amazon EC2 adds new AMI property to view timestamp of the latest instance launch using the AMI: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/amazon-ec2-ami-timestamp-instance-launch/
• Sep 2021 Amazon EC2 Global View
• AWS GuardDuty EC2 Instance Credential Exfiltration
• July 2018, New R5, R5d, and z1d Instances available.
• Feb 2018 AWS Instance Scheduler
• Jun 2012 IAM roles for EC2 instances

Activities

• Read https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-classic-is-retiring-heres-how-to-prepare/
• Create aws ec2 instance with ansible
• Monitor memory and disk metrics for Amazon EC2 Linux instances

Related terms

• ec2-user and Ubuntu usernames
• ec2-instance-connect
• chmod 400 YOUR_KEY.pem
• Amazon EC2 Spot
• Amazon EC2 service quotas
• Basic and advanced monitoring
• Burstable, CPU credits
• macOS, MacStadium
• AWS CloudFormation: AWS::EC2
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
• Azure Virtual Machines
• IAM roles for EC2 instances
• AWS launch template: aws ec2 create-launch-template
• AWS CloudWatch
• AWS: 169.254.169.254
• CloudTrail Events
• amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl

See also

• AWS EC2, AWS::EC2, aws ec2 [ describe-instances | describe-instance-status | run-instances | terminate-instances | stop-instances | tags | describe-vpcs | describe-addresses | describe-availability-zones | describe-subnets | import-key-pair | create-key-pair | create-vpc | create-internet-gateway | modify-instance-attribute | ec2-instance-connect | get-console-output]
• AWS EC2, Amazon EC2 API, aws ec2, AWS::EC2, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, CPU credits, Instance type, EC2 limitations, 169.254.169.254, Instance metadata and user data (IMDS), InstanceType, InstanceId, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS EC2 Instance Connect, launch template, lifecycle, AWS Security group (SG), Amazon EC2 Recycle Bin, Amazon EC2 Mac Instances, Global View
• AWS computing, AWS EC2, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, Amazon EC2 Instance types

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