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Designing AWS Environments

Designing AWS Environments: Architect large-scale cloud infrastructures with AWS

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Designing AWS Environments

Launching an EC2 Instance

In this chapter, we will see how to launch an EC2 instance using your own AWS account. We will discuss some of the choices you will have to make when you launch an instance, including choosing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), an instance type and size, storage options, and configuring your security group.

The topics that we will cover are as follows:

  • Instance types
  • Storage
  • Security groups
  • AMIs

EC2 instance types

In this section, we're going to take a look at selecting the instance type and size as we continue launching our instance. We'll discuss the general types their features, and some good use cases for each. 

General purpose instance

The first instance we're going to discuss is a general purpose instance type known as T3s and T2s.

T3s – burstable general-purpose instance type

T3 instances are good candidates for the development environment, micro-services, and so on.

Here are some of the features of T3:

  • Based on Intel®...

Launching the instance

Now that we have learned about the instance types, let's continue launching our instance:

In the second step for launching our instance, we need to select the instance type and size.

To stay on the free tier, let's select a t2.micro. This is a general purpose instance that will provide one virtual CPU and, 1 GB of memory, and will not have any instance storage.

Click on Next: Configure Instance Details to go to the next step:

On this page, we're pretty much going to leave everything as the default settings.

However, we do want to make sure that we get a public IP address for our instance so we can log in to it. So, choose Enable on Auto-assign Public IP, then click Next: Add Storage:

The next decision we have to make is the size and type of storage volumes to attach to our instance. So, in the next section we will discuss EC2 storage...

EC2 storage options

In the previous section, we looked at the available instance types. In this section, we're going to look at the options for filesystem storage for our instance. We will cover the available options, which include local instance storage and network-attached elastic block storage.

Instance storage

Instance storage is SSD, or hard disk storage, that is installed in the host machine. Since it is local, you can get high disk throughput and high input/output per second, known as IOPS. However, one big caveat is the ephemeral, temporary nature of instance storage. When your instance is running, it is occupying a slot in the hypervisor of a host server. So, it has access to its share of the host machine&apos...

Security groups

In the previous section, we discussed the available storage options for EC2 instances. The next step to launching our instance is to create a security group. In this section, we're going to show you how to create a security group, add rules, and complete the launch of our instance.

Now we've reached step 6 of launching our instance: configuring the security group.

Security groups allow us to protect our instance with firewall rules. We can allow traffic into our instance by protocol and source. Note that we have to have a security group associated with our instance. A security group could be associated with more than one instance.

So, for example, we can create a single security group for all of our web server instances if we would like. All traffic is implicitly denied by default. So, if you don't specify a rule for a particular protocol, then that...

AMIs

An AMI is an image of the filesystem for your boot volume. A base AMI contains an operating system. However, you can launch AMIs that have applications already installed and pre-configured.

These are available from the AWS marketplace or the AWS community, or you can launch custom AMIs that you configure for yourself.

Quick start

When you click on Quick Start, you will get the following screen:

You can select the Free tier only checkbox to filter the available AMIs.

These include Linux varieties such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE, and Amazon's own Linux variety, which is optimized to the AWS environment and most closely resembles Red Hat. You can also select the Windows Server operating system, some with SQL Server...

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about AMIs and where to locate them. We learned about the five general categories of instance types, their features, and suitable workloads for each. We discussed the storage options for EC2 instances, and showed how to attach these volumes when launching an instance.

In Chapter 3, Logging in to EC2 Instances, we're going to learn more about the key pairs and logging in to EC2 instances, and the difference between Linux instances and Windows.

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Key benefits

  • Design and secure virtual private network environments on the AWS cloud
  • Deploy appropriate instance types and sizes based on performance and cost requirements
  • Gain proficiency and confidence when designing virtual cloud environments

Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides trusted,cloud-based solutions to help you meet your business needs. Running your solutions in the AWS Cloud can help you get your applications up and running faster while providing the security to meet your compliance requirements. This book begins by familiarizing you with the key capabilities to architect and host applications, websites, and services on AWS. We explain the available options for AWS free tier with virtual instances and demonstrate how you can launch and connect them. Using practical examples, you’ll be able to design and deploy networking and hosting solutions for large deployments. Finally, the book focuses on security and important elements of scalability and high availability using AWS VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto scaling. By the end of this book, you will have handson experience of working with AWS instances,VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto scalingrelated tasks on Amazon Web Services.

Who is this book for?

This book is for new and aspiring individuals who are preparing or gearing up for a solutions architect role. You’ll also find this useful if you’re an IT professional such as beginners, cloud architects, and cloud solution providers, or DevOps engineer who is preparing to design and deploy large solutions on AWS. No experience with AWS is required.

What you will learn

  • Establish how to launch EC2 instances and log in
  • Work with Linux and Windows instances
  • Understand Amazon VPC networking creation with and without a wizard
  • Design, create, and secure a Virtual Private Cloud
  • Autoscale instances based on the increase and decrease in traffic
  • Deploy applications in a highly available and fault-tolerant manner
  • Load balance the requests with Elastic Load Balancing
  • Make your applications highly available through load balancing, multi-AZ deployments, and auto scaling

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