Section 1: Compute services

overview
Module 6: Compute

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Introducing Section 1: Compute services overview.

 AWS compute services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers many compute services. This module will discuss the highlighted services.

Amazon EC2 Amazon EC2 Amazon Elastic Amazon Elastic VMware Cloud
Auto Scaling Container Registry Container Service on AWS
(Amazon ECR) (Amazon ECS)

AWS Elastic AWS Lambda Amazon Elastic Amazon Lightsail AWS Batch
Beanstalk Kubernetes Service
(Amazon EKS)

AWS Fargate AWS Outposts AWS Serverless

Application Repository

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers many compute services. Here is a brief summary of what
each compute service offers:
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides resizable virtual machines.
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling supports application availability by allowing you to define conditions
that will automatically launch or terminate EC2 instances.
• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is used to store and retrieve Docker images.
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a container orchestration service that
supports Docker.
• VMware Cloud on AWS enables you to provision a hybrid cloud without custom hardware.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides a simple way to run and manage web applications.
• AWS Lambda is a serverless compute solution. You pay only for the compute time that you
use.
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) enables you to run managed Kubernetes on
AWS.
• Amazon Lightsail provides a simple-to-use service for building an application or website.
• AWS Batch provides a tool for running batch jobs at any scale.
• AWS Fargate provides a way to run containers that reduce the need for you to manage servers
or clusters.
• AWS Outposts provides a way to run select AWS services in your on-premises data center.
• AWS Serverless Application Repository provides a way to discover, deploy, and publish
serverless applications.

This module will discuss details of the services that are highlighted on the slide.
 Categorizing compute services
Services Key Concepts Characteristics Ease of Use
• Amazon EC2 • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) • Provision virtual machines that you A familiar concept to many IT
• Instance-based can manage as you choose professionals.
• Virtual machines
• AWS Lambda • Serverless computing • Write and deploy code that runs on A relatively new concept for
• Function-based a schedule or that can be triggered many IT staff members, but easy
• Low-cost by events to use after you learn how.
• Use when possible (architect for the
cloud)
• Amazon ECS • Container-based computing • Spin up and run jobs more quickly AWS Fargate reduces
• Amazon EKS • Instance-based administrative overhead, but
• AWS Fargate you can use options that give
• Amazon ECR you more control.
• AWS Elastic • Platform as a service (PaaS) • Focus on your code (building your Fast and easy to get started.
Beanstalk • For web applications application)
• Can easily tie into other services—
databases, Domain Name System
(DNS), etc.

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You can think of each AWS compute service as belonging to one of four broad categories: virtual
machines (VMs) that provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS), serverless, container-based, and
platform as a service (PaaS).

Amazon EC2 provides virtual machines, and you can think of it as infrastructure as a service
(IaaS). IaaS services provide flexibility and leave many of the server management responsibilities
to you. You choose the operating system, and you also choose the size and resource capabilities
of the servers that you launch. For IT professionals who have experience using on-premises
computing, virtual machines are a familiar concept. Amazon EC2 was one of the first AWS
services, and it remains one of the most popular services.

AWS Lambda is a zero-administration compute platform. AWS Lambda enables you to run code
without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time that is consumed.
This serverless technology concept is relatively new to many IT professionals. However, it is
becoming more popular because it supports cloud-native architectures, which enable massive
scalability at a lower cost than running servers 24/7 to support the same workloads.

Container-based services—including Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic

Kubernetes Service, AWS Fargate, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry—enable you to run
multiple workloads on a single operating system (OS). Containers spin up more quickly than
virtual machines, thus offering responsiveness. Container-based solutions continue to grow in
popularity.

Finally, AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides a platform as a service (PaaS). It facilitates the quick
deployment of applications that you create by providing all the application services that you
need. AWS manages the OS, the application server, and the other infrastructure components so
that you can focus on developing your application code.
 Choosing the optimal compute service
• The optimal compute service or services that you use will depend on your
use case
• Some aspects to consider –
• What is your application design?
• What are your usage patterns?
• Which configuration settings will you want to manage?
• Selecting the wrong compute solution for an architecture can lead to lower
performance efficiency
• A good starting place—Understand the available compute options

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AWS offers many compute services because different use cases benefit from different compute
environments. The optimal compute service or services that you use will depend on your use
case.

Often, the compute architecture that you use is determined by legacy code. However, that does
not mean that you cannot evolve the architecture to take advantage of proven cloud-native
designs.

Best practices include:

• Evaluate the available compute options
• Understand the available compute configuration options
• Collect computer-related metrics
• Use the available elasticity of resources
• Re-evaluate compute needs based on metrics

Sometimes, a customer will start with one compute solution and decide to change the design
based on their analysis of metrics. If you are interested in seeing an example of how a customer
modified their choice of compute services for a particular use case, view this Inventory Tracking
solution video at [Link]
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