Computing Overview

Instance

EC2:

• Purchasing options - On demand (turn on / off); Reserved (contracted, discounted, can still change type/OS etc.); Spot (bid on spare resource)
• Dynamic scaling
• Images - AMI (AWS provided or custom / community provided)

Lightsail - instances with pre-built, template, applications or environment (for example WordPress, LAMP, Node.JS, etc.)

Container

• ECR - Docker container registry
• ECS - run Docker containers
• EKS - run Kubernetes on AWS

Fargate:

• is serverless engine for containers works with both ECS & EKS
• is not a service but a launch type for ECS
  • Fargate launch type:
    • Manages: package containers, specify CPU and memory requirements, define networking and IAM policies, and launch
  • EC2 launch type:
    • Manages:
      • things Fargate manages, and
      • server level: provisioning, patching, and scaling clusters of servers

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Fargate makes it easy for you to focus on building your applications. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design.

Batch

batch computing, support integration with multiple languages & environments (including EC2 instances etc.)

Application Containers

(application servers):

• Elastic Beanstalk - Java EE, Dot Net, python, Apache, IIS, etc.

Lambda

Lambda - run code; minimum administration

Serverless App - AWS Serverless Application Repository makes it easy for developers and enterprises to quickly find, deploy, and publish serverless applications in the AWS Cloud.

Outposts

Bring AWS to outside data center (for low latency or privacy etc.)

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