AMAZON EC2

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 What is Amazon EC2..?
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides
scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web
Services (AWS) cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates
your need to invest in hardware up front, so you can
develop and deploy applications faster. You can use
Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual
servers as you need, configure security and
networking, and manage storage. Amazon EC2 enables
you to scale up or down to handle changes in
requirements or spikes in popularity, reducing your
need to forecast traffic.
 Features of Amazon EC2
• Virtual computing environments, known as instances
• Preconfigured templates for your instances, known as Amazon Machine Images
(AMIs), that package the bits you need for your server (including the operating system
and additional software)
• Various configurations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity for your
instances, known as instance types
• Secure login information for your instances using key pairs (AWS stores the public key,
and you store the private key in a secure place)
• Storage volumes for temporary data that's deleted when you stop or terminate your
instance, known as instance store volumes
• Persistent storage volumes for your data using Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon
EBS), known as Amazon EBS volumes
• Multiple physical locations for your resources, such as instances and Amazon EBS
volumes, known as Regions and Availability Zones
• A firewall that enables you to specify the protocols, ports, and source IP ranges that
can reach your instances using security groups
• Static IPv4 addresses for dynamic cloud computing, known as Elastic IP addresses
• Metadata, known as tags, that you can create and assign to your Amazon EC2
resources
• Virtual networks you can create that are logically isolated from the rest of the AWS
cloud, and that you can optionally connect to your own network, known as virtual
private clouds(VPCs)
 Amazon EC2 – Seven years ago

• Single instance family and size – m1.small (1

vCPU, 1.7 GiB RAM, 160 GB storage)
• Linux only
• On Demand pricing only
• No AWS Management Console
• No EBS
• No Elastic IPs
• No VPC
• No Auto Scaling
• No Elastic Load Balancing Amazon EC2
 Since then
• Many new families and sizes – M1, M2, C1, C3, M3, CC1,
CC2, CG1, G2, CR1, HS1, HI1, T1, G2, I2
• Windows (and Enterprise Linux)
• Reserved Instances and Spot Instances
• AWS Management Console
• Elastic Block Store
• Elastic IP Addresses
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Auto Scaling
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Performance, security, manageability, and scalability
improvements
AWS Global Infrastructure
10 Regions
25 Availability Zones
51 Edge locations
 Amazon EC2
• Resizable compute instances in the cloud
• Provision 1 or many instances
• Familiar operating systems, with cloud
benefits
 Amazon EC2 Instances - Families

• Compute-Optimized
• Storage-Optimized
• Memory-Optimized
 Amazon EC2 Instances - Generations
• C1/CC2/C3
• HI1/I2/HS1
• T1
• M1/M3
• G2
• M2/CR1
 Amazon EC2 Instances – Types
• c3.large
• i2.xlarge
• t1.micro
• m3.medium
• g2.2xlarge
• m2.xlarge
Note: Only instance type is shown from each
family/generation, as an example
 Recent Instance Highlights
• HI1– 120,000 random read IOPS on SSDs
• I2 - Next generation I/O optimized (350,000+
random read IOPS)
• M3 – Next generation general purpose
• HS1– 48 TB of storage per instance
• CR1– 244 GiB of RAM &Intel Xeon E5 2670 (Sandy
Bridge) CPUs
• G2 – 1 NVIDIA GK104 GPU (Kepler)
• C3 - 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge)
CPUs (SSD)
 A choice of block storage options
• Locally attached, “instance storage” –
Type/amount differs by instance
• Amazon EBS Standard Volumes
• Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volumes
Who uses EC2..?
Using AWS, Dow Jones saved $40,000;
improves time-to-market by 30%
• Dow Jones & Company provides news and
business information for the global investment
market.
• Dow Jones needed to replace its Asian data center
with a flexible, cost-effective alternative that
allowed its staff to focus on building products
• Moving its data center to AWS saved $40,000 in
hardware costs and enabled Dow Jones staff to
focus on creating revenue-producing applications
for the website
 Expedia uses AWS to run critical, high
volume applications globally
• One of the world's leading online travel
companies, providing leisure and business travel
to customers worldwide
• Expedia needed a global infrastructure to support
its commitment to create a great experience for
customers worldwide
• Using AWS, Expedia created a global
infrastructure for its critical applications while
reducing network latency to under 50
milliseconds and enabling a 230% CPU
consumption efficiency for data processing
 Some Amazon EC2 Benefits
• Elastic
• Completely Controlled
• Flexible
• Reliable
• Secure
• Inexpensive
 Amazon EC2 is designed to help you:
• Simplify your operations
• Scale as required
• Improve resiliency
• Run applications securely
• Run any application
• Reduce your costs
THANK YOU