Getting More Out of Amazon EC2
summary
Amazon EC2 now offers ~275 instance types, custom Nitro virtualization, EBS with five nines durability, and Graviton2 instances that claim about 44% faster performance versus prior gen; compute optimizer (free) cuts instance cost ~25%. Purchase options include On‑Demand, RIs, Savings Plans (EC2 instance SP ~72% off, compute SP ~66% off), and Spot (spare capacity up to 90% off with ~5% interruptions recently). New features: single Auto Scaling group mixing On‑Demand/Spot, weighted allocations, and a capacity‑optimized Spot allocator using ML.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03EC2 evolution and instances
- 3:29Instance types overview
- 6:41Nitro system and EBS storage
- 9:09Pricing models explained
- 10:53Savings plans deep dive
- 14:01Spot instances strategy
- 18:12Capacity optimization
- 20:17Auto scaling groups
- 24:51AWS Compute Optimizer
- 26:16Big data architecture
- 27:40CI/CD workloads
- 28:43Web application scaling
- 30:07Key takeaways
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