Amazon EC2
Resizeable and secure computing power for almost any job.
Scale workloads efficiently with Amazon EC2 advantages, ensuring flexibility, security, and cost savings.
What is Amazon EC2?
To meet the demands of your workload, Amazon EC2 offers the widest and most comprehensive selection of instances. Instance kinds that offer the best blend of computation, memory, storage, and networking for your workloads include general purpose, compute optimised, memory optimised, storage optimised, and accelerated computing. These instance classes are powered by processors from AMD, NVIDIA, AWS, and Intel, which also offer extra cost and performance optimisations.
Performance optimisation for workloads that are disc or network I/O constrained is further aided by local storage and improved networking options that come with instance types. In addition, a variety of instance types offer bare metal instances, which give your apps direct access to the underlying server’s CPU and memory for use in non-virtualized environments or for apps that require your own hypervisor.
Amazon EC2 Advantages
Following are the Amazon EC2 Advantages
SLA commitment
On-demand access to scalable, dependable infrastructure. Increase capacity in a matter of minutes while maintaining a 99.99% availability SLA.
AWS Nitro System
Make sure your apps have safe computing. The AWS Nitro System integrates security into the core of Amazon EC2.
Optimize performance and cost
With adaptable choices like Amazon EC2 Spot instances, AWS Graviton-based instances, and AWS Savings Plans, you can maximise both cost and performance.
AWS Migration Tools
Easily migrate and develop apps with Amazon Lightsail, AWS Managed Services, or AWS Migration Tools.
Features of Amazon EC2
Multiple Locations
It is possible to set up instances in different locations with Amazon EC2. Regions and Availability Zones are Amazon EC2 locales. Availability Zones are discrete areas designed to offer low-cost, low-latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones within the same Region while also protecting against failures in other Availability Zones. You may safeguard your apps against a single location failure by starting instances in several Availability Zones. Geographically distributed, regions are made up of one or more Availability Zones. The Amazon EC2 Service Level Agreement guarantees 99.99% availability for each region. See Regional Products and Services for product and service availability by region.
High Precision Time with Amazon Time Sync Service
For AWS services like EC2 instances, the Amazon Time Sync Service offers a very precise, dependable, and accessible time source. Refer to the Linux and Windows User Guides’ Setting the Time sections for details on how to access the service.
Choice of operating systems and software
An ever-expanding variety of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and Linux versions like Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE, and Debian, are preconfigured with Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). It collaborate with community and partners to give you as many options as it can. Numerous free and commercial programs from reputable vendors are available in the AWS Marketplace and are made to run on your EC2 instances.
Pay for What You Use
Per-second pricing allows you to just pay for the actual amount of usage. Instead of maximising usage to the hour, it removes the expense of unused minutes and seconds from the bill, allowing you to concentrate on making your applications better.
Scale Seamlessly with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
You may automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down based on conditions you specify using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. EC2 Auto Scaling allows you to add or delete EC2 instances using its dynamic and predictive scaling policies. Dynamic scaling enables you to scale computation according to specified KPIs, while predictive scaling employs machine learning to proactively distribute instances based on expected demand. With EC2 Auto Scaling, you can make sure that the quantity of Amazon EC2 instances you use automatically decreases during periods of low demand to save money and scales up smoothly during periods of high demand to preserve performance.
Optimize Compute Performance and Cost with Amazon EC2 Fleet
To assist optimise scale, performance, and cost, Amazon EC2 Fleet enables you to supply compute capacity across EC2 instance types, Availability Zones, and purchasing models with a single API call. In order to provision and automatically scale compute capacity across EC2 instance types, Availability Zones, and purchasing choices in a single Auto Scaling Group, you can now leverage EC2 Fleet features through Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.
Optimized CPU Configurations
You have more control over your Amazon EC2 instances with the Optimise CPUs functionality in two ways. First, to reduce vCPU-based licensing expenses, you can launch new instances with a configurable number of vCPUs. Second, for workloads that function well with single-threaded CPUs, such some high-performance computing (HPC) applications, you can turn off Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel HT Technology).
Pause and Resume Your Instances
Your Amazon EC2 instances backed by Amazon EBS can be put into hibernation and then brought back into operation later. This functionality is useful for applications that take a long time to startup and maintain state into memory (RAM). For additional details on supported OS systems and instance kinds, as well as hibernation.
