The Necessary Components to consider when creating an EC2 Instance

Ec2 is a compute service that allows you to deploy virtual service within the AWS environment. there are several components that comes up to make an existing Ec2 instance a whole. The are;

1. Operating Systems and Software
2. Networking
3. Storage
4. Cost and Capacity Optimization
5. Global Infrastructure

I will be delving deeper into Operating Systems and Software, breaking the components of this feature and what to consider when setting up.

OPERATING SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE
Primary is comprised of the Amazon Machine Images(AMIs). AMIs comprises of Images(operating systems) which mainly includes Microsoft Windows and Linux Distributions.

For Research and Testing Purposes
when a user wants to test or research an idea with creating an Ec2 instance, there are free tier images that can utilized. This means you can use this images without incurring any cost. The following are some of those images with their specifications.

a. Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM) - Kernel 5.10, SSD Volume Type - 64-bit(x86)/64-bit(Arm).
under this image,

• The free eligible family type is t2 micro
• Which has 1 vCPUs, 1Gb of memory
• Amazon Elastic Block Store(EBS) only instance storage (EBS stores volumes that available to the instance)
• Does not support EBS optimization
• Has low data transfer rate and supports IPv6

b. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Base (64-bit-x86).
under this image,

• The free eligible family type is t2 micro
• Which has 1 vCPUs, 1Gb of memory
• Amazon Elastic Block Store(EBS) only instance storage (EBS stores volumes that available to the instance)
• Does not support EBS optimization
• Has low data transfer rate and supports IPv6

Other free tier images include

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (HVM), SSD Volume Type
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 (HVM), SSD Volume Type
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type
• Debian 10 (HVM), SSD Volume Type
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Base with Containers

and they all have similar specifications to the ones listed above.

In the next part of the series, I will be looking at the purpose of Lightweight businesses.