Getting More Out of Amazon EC2
summary
Overview of Amazon EC2 instance types and how to choose them for different workloads, plus strategies to scale compute capacity while minimizing TCO using EC2 Spot, On-Demand, Reserved Instances, and Savings Plans. Practical guidance on combining EC2 with AWS services—EC2 Auto Scaling, ECS, EKS, EMR and AWS Batch—to do more for less and leverage the latest EC2 features.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00EC2 introduction
- 1:27EC2 instance evolution
- 3:34General instance types
- 4:38Memory optimized instances
- 5:44Compute intensive instances
- 6:05Intel AMD Graviton CPUs
- 7:07Graviton2 costs
- 7:52Performance comparison
- 8:33Storage optimized instances
- 9:40GPU and acceleration instances
- 11:09FPGA and inference instances
- 12:12Nitro platform and security
- 13:16EC2 storage and instances
- 14:19Default encryption
- 15:21Cost optimization
- 17:07Reserved instances and Savings Plans
- 18:53Spot instances and flexibility
- 20:41Managing Spot interruptions
- 21:24Auto scaling
- 23:06Spot instance allocation
- 25:15Compute Optimizer recommendations
- 26:41Reference architecture example
- 27:43Jenkins with Spot example
- 28:27Web app example
- 29:33Summary and conclusion
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