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Get started learning about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), one of the most widely used cloud computing services out there today.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Learning Amazon EC2
- What is Amazon EC2?
- AWS Free Tier
- AWS regions and availability zones
- AWS Local Zones
- Picking the right region: Best practices
- What makes up an EC2 instance?
- Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
- How to find a pre-defined AMI
- How to create and restore an AMI
- EC2 instance types
- Key pairs
- VPC and subnets
- Security groups
- Demo: Security groups
- EBS volumes
- Demo: EBS volumes
- Advanced launch options: Part 1
- Advanced launch options: Part 2
- EC2 user data
- Connect to your EC2 instance
- Navigating the EC2 console
- Navigating the EC2 dashboard
- EBS snapshots
- Demo: EBS snapshots
- Instance store
- Elastic IP
- Elastic network interface
- Demo: Elastic network interface
- Placement groups
- Instance metadata
- Attaching an IAM role
- Launch templates
- Security groups as source or destination
- Introduction to EC2 purchasing options
- On-demand instances and capacity reservations
- Spot instances
- Requesting spot instances
- Reserved instances
- Savings plans
- Dedicated instances vs. dedicated hosts
- Launching dedicated instances and dedicated hosts
- Additional resources
Taught by
Shyam Raj
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