A Cloudy Journey

EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud

• resizable compute capicty in the cloud
• quicky scale compute capacity up and down as computing requirements change

Pricing Tiers

1. On-Demand - pay fixed rate by the hour
   • no long term commitment
2. Reserved - contract with AWS for 1yr or 3yr term
   1. Standard Reserved
   2. Convertible Reserved - can convert between different EC2 instance type familys
   3. Scheduled Reserved - available to launch within certain time windows (schools)
3. Spot - price changes with capacity, you set your bid price
   • If you terminate instance you are charged for full hour
   • If Amazon terminates instance you are not charged for full hour
4. Dedicated Hosts - dedicated EC2 server
   • good for server-bound software licenses (oracle)

Launching Instances

• Termination protection is turned off by default
• On EBS-backed instance the default action is for the root EBS volume to be deleted when the instance is terminated
• EBS root volumes can now be encrytped when launching instances

EC2 Hibernate