Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers secure and resizable compute capacity for virtually any workload.

Amazon EC2 Instance Types

• Defines the processor, memory, and storage type
• Cannot be changed without downtime
• Provided in the following categories
  • General purpose
  • Compute, memory, and storage optimised
  • Accelerated computing
• Pricing is based on the instance type - https://instances.vantage.sh/

Root Device Type

• Instance Store: Ephemeral storage that is physically attached to the host the virtual server is running on
• Elastic Block Store (EBS): Persistent storage that exists separate from the host the virtual server is running on

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

• It’s a template that defines an EC2 instance
• AWS provided many AMI’s that can be leveraged
• Custom AMI’s can be created based on your configuration
• Commercial AMI’s are available in the AWS marketplace

Use cases

• Web-application hosting
• Batch processing
• Web services endpoint
• Desktop in the cloud

Demo

• Create an EC2 instance using management console
• Access EC2 instance via SSH
• Install Jupyter Lab
• Create new notebook, install libraries, process data.