AWS Spot Instances are a cost-effective way to run applications on Amazon EC2 by taking advantage of unused AWS compute capacity. Spot Instances are available at a significant discount compared to On-Demand Instances (up to 90%), but they come with the tradeoff that AWS can terminate them at any time if the capacity is needed…
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Spot Fleets
Spot Fleet is a service provided by AWS that helps you manage Spot Instances in a more flexible and scalable way. A Spot Fleet allows you to launch and manage a collection of Spot Instances across multiple instance types, availability zones, and pricing models. It’s designed to ensure that you can meet the desired capacity…
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ECS Networking
In Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service), there are three primary network modes that define how containers interact with networking and how their networking is configured. These network modes are bridge, host, and awsvpc. bridge Network Mode (default for EC2 launch type) In bridge mode, containers are connected to a virtual bridge network on the EC2…
FSx Details
Amazon FSx is a fully managed service that provides high-performance file systems for use with Amazon Web Services (AWS). It offers a variety of file storage options tailored to different workloads. Here’s an overview of the different types of Amazon FSx: Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Amazon FSx for Lustre Amazon FSx for OpenZFS…
EFS Pricing
Key Pricing Components: Storage Costs: Standard Storage: ~$0.30 per GB per month. Infrequent Access (IA) Storage: ~$0.025 per GB per month. Data Transfer Costs: Data Transfer Between EC2 and EFS: Data transfer between EC2 instances and EFS is free within the same Availability Zone. Data Transfer Between AZs: If you use multi-AZ deployment for EFS,…
EBS Volume Type comparison
Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) Volume Type Supports Provisioned IOPS? Max IOPS Best For io1 ✅ Yes 64,000 High-performance databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL) io2 ✅ Yes 256,000 Mission-critical applications (SAP HANA, high-throughput databases) gp3 ✅ Yes (Customizable IOPS) 16,000 Cost-effective high-performance workloads gp2 ❌ No (Burstable only) 16,000 (burst) General workloads (web servers, dev/test) st1/sc1 ❌ No…
FSR and Multi-Attach
Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) allows you to create low-latency and instant-ready Amazon EBS volumes from snapshots, avoiding the usual initialization delay. Normally, when you restore an EBS volume from a snapshot, it experiences lazy loading, which can cause high latency for the first read operations. FSR eliminates this issue….