DEV Community

Roman
Roman

Posted on • Edited on

1

AWS EC2 Cheat Sheet

Image description

Allows:

  • to run different types of cloud instances and pay-per-use models.
  • to control computing resources at the operating system level
  • working in an Amazon computing environment.

  • EC2 & EBS

  • EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Instance

  • EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Persistent storage volume

  • AMI (Amazon Machine Image) - Packages OS and additional installations in a reusable template

  • Instance and Instance Types: General Purpose (t-type and m-type), Compute Optimized(c-type), GPU Graphics, GPU Compute, Memory Optimized(r, × and z-type), and Storage Optimized(d, h and i-type)

  • Purchasing Options: On Demand, Reserved, Scheduled, Spot, Dedicated Instance and Dedicated Host

  • Spot: Partial hours are not billed if terminated by AWS EC2

  • Secure login information for your instances using key pairs

  • Placement group: Cluster and Spread

For root:

  • General purpose SSD (balances price & performance)
  • Provisioned OPS SD (Highest performance for mission-critical low-latency or high throughput workloads)
  • Magnetic HDD (previous generation)

For other:

  • Throughput Provisioned HDD (low cost for frequently accessed, throughput intensive workloads)
  • Cold HDD (lowest cost for less frequently workloads)
  • Instance Store - temporary storage volume in which data is deleted when you STOP or TERMINATE your instance

AWS Security LIVE!

Tune in for AWS Security LIVE!

Join AWS Security LIVE! for expert insights and actionable tips to protect your organization and keep security teams prepared.

Learn More

Top comments (0)

A Workflow Copilot. Tailored to You.

Pieces.app image

Our desktop app, with its intelligent copilot, streamlines coding by generating snippets, extracting code from screenshots, and accelerating problem-solving.

Read the docs