AWS Cloud Servers

Readings

• AWS EC2

  • What is an EC2 Instance?

    • An EC2 (elastic compute cloud) instance is a virtual machine that can be deployed on the cloud through AWS

  • Name 2 use cases for EC2.

    • host websites/host servers

  • Provide 1 reason to use ECS instead of Heroku.

    • heroku is no longer going to be free

Videos

• EC2 for Humans

  • Where can we find EC2 on the AWS Console?

    • in compute section

  • Explain the general difference between T2 Micro and XL.

    • The sizes are different in terms of amount of RAM and compute power available. A T2 micro instance is a very small instance size. And an XL instance has a lot more computing power

  • Explain a “Compute Cycle” to a non-technical friend.

    • compute cycle measures what your apps require

• Elastic Beanstalk

  • What is Elastic Beanstalk?

    • A service provided by AWS to quickly get started with hosting web applications

  • Describe the relationship between EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk.

    • both are aws services

  • Name some benefits of using Elastic Beanstalk.

    • easy deployment, infrastructure control, scalable, dev productivity

Booknmarks

• Virtual Machines

• VMS and the cloud