Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
- Without AWS EC2 Key Pair, you can still SSH into your EC2
- Amazon Linux AMI — Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image
- AMI uses yum package installer
- Dont use Reserved Instances
- Can consider Savings Plans
- Not recommend Spot Instances — Because Amazon can recycle your instance at any time
- Security of EC2: Security Group, VPC and Network ACL
- Use Security Group to protect your instances
- Use VPC & Network ACL to protect the network of your instances
- EC2 Autoscaling can replace unhealthy instance
- EC2 Network throttling
EC2 Instance Types
Shopping Guide
Choose Your EC2 Instance Type Wisely on AWS by Percona
Understanding Type and Size
// Example: t3.large, m5.2xlarge
[type].[size]
Possible value of Types
Possible value of Size
- nano
- micro
- small
- medium
- large
- xlarge
- 2xlarge
- 4xlarge
- 8xlarge
- 10xlarge
- 12xlarge
- 16xlarge
- 24xlarge
- metal