Amazon EC2 Masterclass
What you'll learn
- In-depth conceptual understanding of EC2 and its components like AMI, Instance Types, Security Groups, Placement Groups, EBS, and Regions and AZs etc.
- How to launch and connect to Amazon EC2 Linux and Windows Instances
- Advantages of Elastic IPs over Public IPs and how they can be utilized to their fullest potential
- Relevance and usage of On-Demand instances in both test and production environments
- Reserved Instances - Introduction, various payment options and offering classes, limits, instance size flexibility and how you can reserve EC2 instances based on 1-3 year term
- Benefits and usage of Savings Plan over Reserved Instances
- Process to reserve compute capacity through Capacity Reservations in a specific AZ, when you need it, for as long as you need it
- Deep dive into Spot Instances' concepts including what it's all about, how it works, different types of requests, Spot Blocks, various allocation strategies, health checks, and how to create and cancel a Spot Instance request
- Utilization of Dedicated Instances in order to run your instances on a single tenant hardware
- Usage of Dedicated Host as a physical server with EC2 instance capacity fully dedicated to your use
- Understand benefits and implementation of different types of Load Balancers - Classic, Application and Network in our AWS environment
- Advanced features of Load Balancers like Stickiness, Cross-Zone Load Balancing and Connection Draining
- How Auto Scaling helps you to grow or shrink your infrastructure based on the patterns of incoming traffic, time of day and demand
- Overview of Auto Scaling components such as Group, Launch Template, Scaling Plan and Policies
- Implementation of Auto Scaling in different scenarios such as using it with a load balancer and maintaining the desired count of EC2 instances
- Usage of Target Tracking policy to scale out and scale in the number of instances based on CloudWatch metric and target value
Requirements
- No prior AWS knowledge or experience is required
- A computer or a laptop with decent internet connectivity
- Access to an AWS free tier account
Description
Welcome to EC2 Masterclass course, which consists of all core and advanced concepts on EC2 and other related topics like IP Addressing, Elastic Block Store (EBS), Security Groups, Placement Groups, Launching and connecting to Linux and Windows EC2 Instances, Elastic IP Addresses, Network Interfaces, EC2 Purchasing Options - On-Demand, Reserved, Savings Plan, Capacity Reservations, Spot Instances, Dedicated Instances and Dedicated Hosts, various types of Load Balancers - Classic, Application and Network, and Auto Scaling etc.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment.
To use Amazon EC2, you simply:
Select a pre-configured, templated Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to get up and running immediately. Or create an AMI containing your applications, libraries, data, and associated configuration settings.
Configure security and network access on your Amazon EC2 instance.
Choose which instance type(s) you want, then start, terminate, and monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs or the variety of management tools provided.
Determine whether you want to run in multiple locations, utilize static IP endpoints, or attach persistent block storage to your instances.
Pay only for the resources that you actually consume, like instance-hours or data transfer.
Even though EC2 is a foundational topic, it is of great importance as it is used in all the testing and enterprise level deployments.
The entire course has been broken down into following 13 sections:-
In-Depth Conceptual Understanding of EC2 & its Components - In this section, we go through the main components required to launch our EC2 instances in the AWS cloud.
Bringing All the Pieces Together - Here we combine all the components together we went through in the previous one, and finally do some real hands-on as we will be launching and connecting to our EC2 instances.
On-Demand & Reserved Instances - In this section, we go through two of the EC2 purchasing options - On-Demand and Reserved Instances.
Savings Plan - We understand how we can make use of Savings Plans to get huge discounts on our compute usage and still get more flexibility compared to Reserved Instances.
Capacity Reservations - In this section, we understand how we can reserve capacity for our Amazon EC2 instances in a specific AZ, when we need it, for as long as we need it.
Spot Instances - We understand the relevance of Spot Instances which enable to you to request unused EC2 instances at steep discounts.
Dedicated Instances & Dedicated Hosts - In this section, we go through the concepts based on Dedicated Instances and Dedicated Hosts.
Elastic IP Addresses (EIPs) - We focus on the advantages of Elastic IP addresses over Public IP addresses.
Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) - In this section, we explore various features, attributes and benefits of ENIs.
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) - We learn the importance of using load balancers in our cloud infrastructure, different types of load balancers, and finally go through some of the advanced concepts.
Introduction to Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling - We understand the basics of Auto Scaling, and explore its various components and features.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Deep Dive - Over here, we deep dive into the advanced features and deployments done using Auto Scaling.
Main Quiz - Test yourself by answering some complex questions based on the topics we have gone through in this course.
Who this course is for:
- Absolute beginners with no prior knowledge or experience on AWS platform
- Existing AWS Developers, Solution Architects, DevOps professionals and System Administrators who want to have an in-depth understanding of EC2 and associated services
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I'm a technology enthusiast who possesses a deep passion for latest technologies that drives innovation and leads to transformation of ideas into new and useful products or processes. Presently, I'm contributing towards innovative technologies like Unified Communication & Collaboration, Networking and Cloud Computing. I have been involved in planning, designing and deployment of architectures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform from past five years. Apart from my day-to-day job, I have been actively involved in contributing myself towards knowledge sharing by delivering online and classroom training programs on this very technology.