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Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

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Agenda
 What is EC2
 EC2 Benefits
 EC2 Features
 How to access EC2
 EC2 Purchasing Options
 EC2 Amazon Machine Images
 EC2 Creating AMI
 EC2 Instance Types
 EC2 Resizing
 EC2 Instance Lifecycle
 EC2 Reboot, Stop, and Terminate
 EC2 Instance Termination
 Elastic IP
 Elastic Network Interfaces
 EC2 Understanding EC2 Billing
 EC2 Per Second Billing
 EC2 Pricing
 EC2 Limitation
 Hands-On Lab
What is EC2

 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable

computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

 It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and

lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment.

 Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server
Amazon
instances (EC2 instances) to minutes.
EC2

 Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay

only for capacity that you actually use.
AWS EC2: Benefits

Elastic Flexible
Completely Controlled Integrated
Web-Scale Computing Cloud Hosting Services

Reliable Secure Inexpensive

AWS EC2: Features

Instance Key Instance

Instances AMI EBS Volumes
Types Pair Store

Regions
Security
VPC EIP Tags &
Group
AZs
AWS EC2: How to access EC2

Web-based User Interface

Command Line Interface (CLI)

Windows PowerShell
AWS EC2: Purchasing Options

On-Demand Reserved Dedicated

Spot Dedicated
Instances Instances Instance
Instances Hosts

Purchase at
significant discount
(up to 75%).
Physical host is fully
Highest bidder uses dedicated to run
Instances are Pay, by the
instance at a your instances.
always available hour, for
significant discount
Pay by the hour (up to 90%) instances that Bring your per-
run on single tenant socket, per-core, or
Spot blocks hardware per- VM software
supported licenses to reduce
cost.

1-year to 3
year terms
AWS EC2: Amazon Machine Images
 An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) provides the
information required to launch an instance.

 An AMI includes the following:

o A template for the root volume for the instance (for
example, an operating system, an application server,
and applications)
o Launch permissions that control which AWS
accounts can use the AMI to launch instances
o A block device mapping that specifies the volumes to
attach to the instance when it's launched.
AWS EC2: Creating AMI
 Select an appropriate EBS-backed AMI
 Launch an instance
 Update an instance
 Create image
 Launch an instance from your new AMI
AWS EC2: Instance Types
 The instance type specify the hardware of the host computer used for your instance.
 Each instance type offers different compute, memory, and storage capabilities.
 Amazon EC2 dedicates some resources of the host computer, such as CPU, memory, and instance storage,
to a particular instance.
 Amazon EC2 shares other resources of the host computer, such as the network and the disk subsystem,
among instances.
 If each instance on a host computer tries to use as much of one of these shared resources as possible, each
receives an equal share of that resource.
 However, when a resource is under-utilized, an instance can consume a higher share of that resource while
it's available.
AWS EC2: Resizing
 If the root device for your instance is an EBS volume, you can change the size of the instance simply by
changing its instance type, which is known as resizing.
 You must stop your Amazon EBS–backed instance before you can change its instance type.
 After resizing, the instance ID does not change.
 If instance has a public IPv4 address, AWS release the address and give it a new public IPv4 address.
 The instance retains its private IPv4 addresses, any Elastic IP addresses.
AWS EC2: Instance Lifecycle
AWS EC2: Reboot, Stop, and Terminate
Characteristic Reboot Stop/start Terminate
(EBS- backed instances only)
Host computer  The instance stays on the  The instance runs on a new host computer  None
same host computer
Private and public  These addresses stay the  The instance keeps its private IPv4 address.  None
IPv4 addresses same  The instance gets a new public IPv4 address
Elastic IP  The Elastic IP remains  The Elastic IP remains associated with the  The Elastic IP is
addresses associated with the instance disassociated from
(IPv4) instance the instance
Instance store  The data is preserved  The data is erased  The data is erased
Volumes
Root device  The volume is preserved  The volume is preserved  The volume is deleted
volume by default
Billing  The instance billing hour  You stop incurring charges for an instance as  You stop incurring
doesn't change. soon as its state changes to stopping. charges for an
 Each time an instance transitions from stopped instance as soon as its
to running, it start a new instance billing hour state changes to
shutting-down
AWS EC2: Instance Termination
 After you terminate an instance, it remains visible in the console for a short while, and then the entry is
automatically deleted.
 By default, Amazon EBS root device volumes are automatically deleted when the instance terminates.
 By default, any additional EBS volumes that you attach at launch, or any EBS volumes that you attach to an
existing instance persist even after the instance terminates.
 If you want to prevent your instance from being accidentally terminated using Amazon EC2, you can enable
termination protection for the instance
AWS EC2: Elastic IP
 An Elastic IP address is a public IP address (static) that you can allocate to instance.
 You can disassociate an Elastic IP address from a resource, and re-associate it with a different resource.
 A disassociated Elastic IP address remains allocated to your account until you explicitly release it.
 To ensure efficient use of Elastic IP addresses, a hourly charge is associated if an Elastic IP address is not
associated with a running instance, or if it is associated with a stopped instance or an unattached network
interface.
 You are not charged for one Elastic IP address associated with the running instance, but you are charged for
any additional Elastic IP addresses associated with the instance.
 By default, all AWS accounts are limited to 5 Elastic IP addresses per region.
AWS EC2: Elastic Network Interfaces
 An elastic network interface is a virtual network interface that you can attach to an instance in a VPC.
 You can create a network interface, attach it to an instance, detach it from an instance, and attach it to
another instance.
 Every instance has a default network interface, called the primary network interface (eth0). You cannot
detach a primary network interface from an instance.
 You can create and attach additional network interfaces. The maximum number of network interfaces that
you can use varies by instance type.
 A network interface can include the following attributes:
o A primary private IP address & one or more secondary private IP addresses
o One Elastic IP address per private IP address
o One public IP address
o One or more security groups
o A MAC address
AWS EC2: Understanding EC2 Billing
 If instance is billed by the hour, you are billed for a minimum of one hour each time a new instance is
started—when it enters the running state.
 If your instance is billed by the second, you are billed for a minimum of 60 seconds each time a new
instance is started—when it enters the running state.
 Instances that are in any other state—such as stopped, pending, etc.—are not billed.
 Examples:
o When you run one instance for 30 minutes and then terminate the instance, you are billed for one
instance hour.
o When you run one instance for 10 minutes, stop the instance, and then start the instance again, you
are billed for two instance hours.
o When you run two EC2 instances of the same type for 30 minutes each, you are billed for two instance
hours.
AWS EC2: Per Second Billing
 With per-second billing, you pay for only what you use.
 EC2 usage are billed on one second increments, with a minimum of 60 seconds.
 Per-second billing is available for instances launched in:
o On-Demand, Reserved and Spot forms
o All regions and Availability Zones
o Amazon Linux and Ubuntu
AWS EC2: Pricing
Resource OS Region Pricing Remarks
t2.micro Linux USE (N. Virginia) $0.0116/ Hr. On-Demand

t2.micro Windows USE (N. Virginia) $0.0162/ Hr. On-Demand

t2.micro Linux On-Demand

AP (Mumbai) $0.0144./ Hr.
t2.micro Windows On-Demand
AP (Mumbai) $0.019/ Hr.
t2.micro Linux USE (N. Virginia) $0.007/ Hr. - Reserved (1 Year, Upfront)
- 42% Saving, On-Demand)

t2.micro Windows USE (N. Virginia) $0.011/ Hr. - Reserved (1 Year, Upfront)
- 30% Saving, On-Demand

*Pricing as on 1st November 2017

AWS EC2: Limitation

Resource Default Limit

EIP per region 5
Running On-Demand t2.micro instances 20
Reserved Instances 20
Hands-On Lab

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