Chapter 1. Selecting and Configuring Amazon EC2 Instances
In this chapter, we will cover recipes for:
- Choosing the right AWS EC2 instance types
- Preparing AWS CLI tools
- Launching EC2 instances using EC2-Classic and EC2-VPC
- Allocating Elastic IP addresses
- Creating an instance with multiple NIC cards and a static private IP address
- Selecting the right storage for your EC2 instance
- Creating tags for consistency
- Configuring security groups
- Creating an EC2 key pair
- Grouping EC2 instances using placement groups
- Configuring Elastic Load Balancing
- Architecting for high availability
- Creating instances for AWS Marketplace
Introduction
You need to ask yourself several questions in order to choose the right AWS EC2 instance for meeting your requirements. These include: What ...
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