EC2 - Elastic Cloud Compute

Elastic Compute Cloud

• Infrastructure as a Service

• Capabilities

  • Renting virtual servers (EC2)

  • Storing data on virtual drives (EBS)

  • Distributing load across machines (ELB)

  • Scaling the services using an auto-scaling group (ASG)

Sizing & Configuration Options

• Operating System (OS): Linux, Windows or Mac OS

• Computer Power & Cores (CPU)

• Random Access Memory (RAM)

• Storage

  • Network attached (EBS & EFS)

  • Hardware (EC2 Instance Store)

• Network card: speed of card, public IP address

• Firewall rules: security group

• Bootstrap script (configure at first launch): EC2 User Data