AWS

Compute

Lab
2
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Question Where do you run the majority of your
compute workloads?

A. On-premises physical or virtual

servers
B. Cloud-based servers
C. On-premises containers
D. Cloud-based containers

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Module overview
• Business request
• Compute services
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
• EC2 instance storage
• Amazon EC2 pricing options
• AWS Lambda
• Present solutions
• Knowledge check
• Capstone check-in
• Lab 2: Build your Amazon VPC infrastructure
 Business The compute operations manager
wants to know:
Requirements
• What AWS compute services are
there?
• What should the team consider when
deploying new and existing servers to
Amazon EC2?
• How do we know which volume type
to attach to our EC2 instances?
Compute • How can we optimize cost for compute
Operations resources?
Manager
• Where can we start with serverless
compute options?
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Compute services

“What AWS compute services are there?”

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Evolution of AWS compute
AWS
Amazon Elastic Inferentia AWS
Container Service and Trainium Graviton
Amazon EC2 (Amazon ECS) AWS Lambda AWS Fargate processors processors

2006 2014 2014 2017 2021 2022

Virtualization Containerization Serverless Serverless AWS custom-built and

containerization specialized processors
AWS services in this module

Amazon Elastic Compute

Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Amazon Elastic Block Store

(Amazon EBS)

AWS Lambda

We will cover other compute-related services later in this

course.
EC2 instances

“What should the team consider when deploying new and

existing servers to Amazon EC2?”

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EC2 instances

Physical servers EC2 instances give You can add or

host EC2 instances you secure and remove compute
in AWS Regions resizable compute capacity to meet
around the world. capacity in the changes in demand.
cloud.
EC2 instance launch considerations

Application and Instance type and

Name and tags Key pair
OS image size

Network and Placement and Scripts and

Storage
security tenancy metadata
Tags in Amazon EC2

• Assign a
name and
other tags to
your AWS
AWS Cloud
resources.
• Manage,
search, and
CLI command:
filter Stop EC2 instances
resources. with “Dev2” tag
value Owner: Owner: Owner:
• More tags
Dev1 Dev2 Dev3
are better
than fewer.
• Tags are
case-
sensitive.
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

AMI
components:
• Template Amazon EC2 service
for instance
volumes
• Launch EC2 instance
permissions Create Deploy
• Block
device
mapping EC2 instance AMI EC2 instance

Benefits:
• Repeatable EC2 instance
• Reusable
• Recoverable
Where to get an AMI

Choose from the

following:

EC2 Image
Builder

Use Search the AWS Create your

prebuilt Marketplace for a own AMIs
AMIs catalog with manually,
offered by thousands of or use EC2
AWS. solutions. Image Builder
Understanding instance type names

Instance
generation Instance size

c6g.xlarge
Instance Additional
family properties
EC2 instance families

General Storage Compute

purpose Memory optimized optimized optimized Accelerated compute

I3/ P4d
Mac T3 M5 M5zn R5 X1 z1d U* C5 G4 F1 Inf1
I3en n
D3/
T3a M5a R5a X1e D3e C5a G4a
n d

T4g M6g R6g H1 C6g

4:1 Memory 8:1 Memory 2:1 Memory

(GiB) to vCPU (GiB) to (GiB) to
ratio vCPU ratio vCPU ratio
Benefits of newer generation instance types

SQL Server Testing with HammerDB:

Average Cost Per 1 Billion Transactions Per Month
$60.00 $56.61

$50.00
Increase $43.08
compute
$40.00
capabilities
and reduce
processing $30.00
costs.
$20.00

$10.00

$0.00
m4.xlarge m5.xlarge
AWS Compute Optimizer

Resource
✓ configuratio
✓ n
✓
✓
Usage data Receive cross-
AWS Reconfigure
Opt in your Compute service
resources
accounts to get Optimizer Recommendatio integration
based on
started ns recommendatio
recommendation
ns exported to
Resource analysis s
Amazon S3
ML, based on CloudWatch
data

Apply insights from millions of workloads.

Save time by comparing and selecting resources.
Amazon EC2 key pairs

Public
keys
Private
key
Tenancy

Shared tenancy Dedicated Dedicated Host

Share your Instance
Isolate your Control your
hardware. hardware. hardware.

$ D D $$ $$ $$ $$

D = potential compute available

$ = purchased compute
Placement groups and use cases

With placement groups, choose how close or far your instances are from each
other.
Requirements Solution Example use case
Provide low network Cluster High performance computing
latency and high network EC2 instances (HPC)
throughput. near each other.

Critical instances must

Spread
across network Medical health record system
be fault-tolerant. segments and
racks.

Avoid correlated
Partition Large distributed and
replicated workloads like
in logical groups
hardware failures. on separate Kafka, Hadoop, and
hardware. Cassandra
User data

Amazon EC2 service

#!/bin/bash
• Runs scripts
as root after yum update –y
the yum install -y httpd
instance service httpd start
Linux Linux EC2
launches chkconfig httpd on
AMI instance
• Can be
used to User
perform data
common
automated <powershell>
configuratio
Install-WindowsFeature –Name Web-Server
n tasks
</powershell>
Window Windows
s AMI EC2 instance
Instance metadata

Your AMI User data Running EC2

instance
#!/bin/bash
yum update –y
hostname = $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-hostname)

Data about the EC2 Metadata Value

instance can be instance-id i-1234567890abcdef0
used for mac 00-1B-63-84-45-E6
automation. public-hostname ec2-203-0-113-25.compute-1.amazonaws.com
public-ipv4 203.0.113.25
Note: You can only get
metadata with a request local-hostname ip-10-251-50-12.ec2.internal
from your EC2 instance. local-ipv4 10.251.50.12
Storage for EC2 instances

“How do we know which volume type to attach to our EC2

instances?”

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

• Create block-level
storage with
automatic volume
replication in your Primary
Availability Zone.
• Attach one or Instance A
more EBS
volumes to a
Secondar
single EC2
y
instance.
• Move EBS Volumes
volumes between
Host Amazon
EC2 instances as
EBS
needed.
Amazon EBS volume types
• Solid state
drive (SSD)
is for high-
performance
and general-
purpose
workloads. EBS SSD- gp2 gp3 io1 io2
• Hard disk backed volumes
drive (HDD)
is for big or
infrequently
accessed
data.
• io2 includes
options for
Block EBS HDD- st1 sc1
Express. backed volumes
Amazon EBS volume characteristics (1 of 2)

General Purpose SSD Provisioned IOPS SSD

Volume type gp2 gp3 io1 io2 io2 Block Express

Volume that balances Highest-performance SSD Next generation of Amazon

price and performance for volume for mission-critical EBS storage service
Description a wide variety of low-latency or high- architecture built for the
workloads throughput workloads cloud

Size 1 GiB to 16 TiB 4 GiB to 16 TiB 4 GiB to 64 TiB

16,000 16,000
Max IOPS (burst) (no burst)
64,000 256,000

Max throughput
250 MiB/s 1,000 MiB/s 1,000 MiB/s 4,000 MiB/s
per volume
Amazon EBS volume characteristics (2 of 2)

Throughput Optimized HDD Cold HDD

Volume type st1 sc1

Low-cost HDD volume designed Lowest-cost HDD volume

Description for frequently accessed, designed for less frequently
throughput-intensive workloads accessed workloads

Size 125 GiB to 16 TiB 125 GiB to 16 TiB

Max IOPS 500 250

Max throughput
500 MiB/s 250 MiB/s
per volume
 Instance store volumes

• Local to EC2 instance EC2 instance EC2 instance

instance running stopping stopped
• Non-
persistent
• Doesn’t
support
snapshots
• Available in
HDD, SSD,
and non-
volatile
memory
express SSD Instance Instance All data on
(NVMe SSD) store with store with the instance
varieties data data store is lost
Amazon EC2 pricing options

“How can we optimize cost for compute resources?”

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Amazon EC2 purchase options

On-Demand Savings Plans Spot Instances

Pay for compute 1-year or 3-year Spare Amazon EC2

capacity per second or commitment with varied capacity at savings of up
hour with no long-term flexibility based on type to 90% off On-Demand
commitments of Savings Plan costs

Spiky workloads or Committed Fault-tolerant,

temporary needs flexible access to flexible, stateless
compute workloads
Savings Plan types

Compute Savings Plans Flexible across:

Greatest flexibility, up to • Instance family • Tenancy
66% off On-Demand rates, • Size • Availability
and applies to AWS
Fargate and AWS Lambda • OS Zone
usage. • Region

EC2 Instance Savings

Plans Flexible across:
Provide the lowest prices, • Availability Zone
up to 72% off On-Demand
• Size
rates on the selected
instance family in a specific • OS
AWS Region. • Tenancy
EC2 Spot Instances

Use the same Get the Plan for Diversify

infrastructure best value interruptions your fleet

Run on the same Decide what you Prepare for capacity Choose different
hardware as can pay for compute changes in your instance types, size,
On-Demand and and save up to 90% Availability Zones. and Availability
Savings Plans. from the On- Zone.
Demand price.
Use cases for Spot Instances

Image and Web Big data and

media rendering services analytics
Manage rendering Launch Spot Accelerate and
projects cost effectively to Instances to scale scale time-critical,
web services and hyper-scale
meet deadlines. applications at a workloads.
lower cost.
 Combining purchase options

$35

$30 Spiky, unpredictable Amazon

On-Demand
EC2 usage that is not suitable
List price
for Spot
$25
Cost/hr.

Workloads that are fault-

Spot Instances
$20 tolerant, flexible, and
Discounts up to 90%
stateless

$15 Steady usage where the

Compute Savings Plans
flexibility to change
Discounts up to 66%
$10 is important

Steady usage unlikely to EC2 Instance

$5 change during the Savings Plans
commitment Discounts up to 72%
$0
Time
AWS Lambda

“Where can we start with serverless compute options?”

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Serverless computing

Computing with virtual Serverless computing

servers

• Highly
available
• Fully
managed
by AWS
Server Code Code
s
 AWS Lambda

• Serverless Invoke
compute
• Supports
Node.js, Java,
Python, C#,
Go,
PowerShell, Event Lambda
Ruby, and source
Services
more Optional response
• Runs for up
to 15
minutes
• Supports up
to 10 GB
memory Function code
Event source examples

Amazon AWS Amazon Simple Email Amazon S3 AWS Amazon

DynamoDB CodeCommit Service (Amazon SES) IoT services Alexa

Amazon AWS Amazon Simple Amazon Amazon API

CloudWatch CloudFormation Queue Service Cognito Gateway
(Amazon SQS)

AWS Amazon Amazon Simple Application

CloudTrail EventBridge Notification Service Load
(Amazon SNS) Balancer

AWS Step Functions Amazon Kinesis

Use cases

Web applications Backends Data Chatbots Amazon Alexa IT automation

processing
Review

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 Present Consider how you would answer the
following:
solutions
• What AWS compute services are
there?
• What should the team consider when
deploying new and existing servers to
Amazon EC2?
• How do we know which volume type
to attach to our EC2 instances?
Compute • How can we optimize cost for compute
Operations resources?
Manager
• Where can we start with serverless
compute options?
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Module review

In this module you learned about:

 Compute services  Amazon EC2 pricing options
 EC2 instances  AWS Lambda
 Instance storage

Next, you will review:

Capstone check-in Lab introduction

Knowledge check
Capstone architecture

Region
VPC
Availability Zone
Public subnet App subnet Database
subnet

NAT gateway EFS mount

App Aurora replica
target
servers
Application
Load Auto
Balancer Scaling
group Amazon EFS
Internet Public subnet Database
gateway subnet
EFS mount
target Aurora
primary DB
NAT App servers App subnet instance
gateway
Availability Zone
Capstone architecture check-in

Region
VPC
Availability Zone
Public subnet App subnet Database
subnet

NAT gateway
App
servers

Internet Public subnet Database

gateway subnet

NAT App servers App subnet

gateway
Availability Zone
Knowledge check

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Knowledge check question 1

Which of the following are true of AMIs? (Select TWO.)

A AMIs can specify the subnets for launch.

AMIs can include block device mapping that specifies the volumes to attach to the
B
Amazon EC2 instance when it is launched.

C AMIs can only be obtained from the AWS Marketplace.

D You can launch multiple instances from a single AMI.

E AMIs can only be used by users within a single account.

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 Knowledge check question 1 and answer

Which of the following are true of AMIs? (Select TWO.)

A AMIs can specify the subnets for launch.

B AMIs can include block device mapping that specifies the volumes to attach to the
correct Amazon EC2 instance when it is launched.

C AMIs can only be obtained from the AWS Marketplace.

D
correct You can launch multiple instances from a single AMI.

E AMIs can only be used by users within a single account.

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Knowledge check question 2

In the instance type name m6g.2xlarge, which aspect of the name indicates the instance
family and helps to determine its best use case?

A m

B g

C 2xlarge

D 6

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 Knowledge check question 2 and answer

In the instance type name m6g.2xlarge, which aspect of the name indicates the instance
family and helps to determine its best use case?

A
correct m

B g

C 2xlarge

D 6

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Knowledge check question 3

Which of the following are true statements regarding Lambda? (Select TWO.)

A Functions currently only support Python.

B You are responsible for updating and patching Lambda servers.

C Functions can be allocated up to 10 GB of memory.

D Functions can run for a maximum of 15 minutes.

E Functions require a security group.

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 Knowledge check question 3 and answer

Which of the following are true statements regarding Lambda? (Select TWO.)

A Functions currently only support Python.

B You are responsible for updating and patching Lambda servers.

C
correct Functions can be allocated up to 10 GB of memory.

D
correct Functions can run for a maximum of 15 minutes.

E Functions require a security group.

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Lab 2:
Build your Amazon VPC infrastructure

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Lab 2 diagram
Region
VPC (10.0.0.0/16)
Internet
gateway
Public subnet (10.0.0.0/24) Public Route Table
Destination Target
Public security
group 10.0.0.0/16 local
0.0.0.0/0 igw-021345abcdef67
NAT gateway EC2 instance

Private subnet (10.0.2.0/23) Private Route

Destination Table Target
Private security
group 10.0.0.0/16 local
0.0.0.0/0 nat-abcdef01234567
EC2 instance

Availability Zone
Lab tasks

Connect to the Amazon EC2

Task 1: Create an Amazon VPC in a Region. Task 8:
instance in the public subnet.
Create a NAT gateway and
Task 2: Create public and private subnets. Task 9: configure routing in the private
subnet.
Task 3: Create an internet gateway. Create a security group for private
Task 10:
resources.
Route internet traffic in the public
Task 4: Launch an Amazon EC2 instance
subnet to the internet gateway. Task 11:
into a private subnet.
Task 5: Create a public security group. Connect to the Amazon EC2
Task 12:
instance in the private subnet.
Launch an Amazon EC2 instance
Task 6:
into a public subnet. Optional Test connectivity to the private
Task 1: instance from the public instance.
Connect to a public instance via
Task 7: Optional
HTTP. Retrieve instance metadata.
Task 2:
End of Module 4

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