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Reading Time: 3 minutes EC2 Spot Instances lets you access excess compute capacity in the cloud. Spot pricing is the cheapest pricing model on AWS (Amazon Web Services). Unlike On-Demand and Reserved Instance prices, spot prices are more volatile and subject to interruptions. You can use AWS Spot Instances for various workloads, including big data, CI/CD jobs, and running…
Reading Time: 3 minutes AWS (Amazon Web Services) Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is a scalable, high performance EC2 storage. You can use EBS to store persistent data, meaning the service will keep your data even when you terminate EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Instances. With EBS, you can create storage volumes and attach them to EC2 instances. Ideally, EBS is…
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the distant past, before cloud computing, organizations used on-premise computing. Whenever a larger server was required, it involved physically purchasing the equipment, setting it up in a designated space, and connecting it to the network. In more sophisticated organizations, a procurement department attempts to plan for these upgrades. There are many ways to approach…
Reading Time: 3 minutes AWS EC2 pricing for instances includes AWS Free Tier, Spot Instances, On-Demand Instances, and Dedicated Hosts. If you’re just starting with AWS, you may find these options overwhelming. Regardless of your pricing option, AWS guarantees a secure and customizable virtual machine for its Elastic Compute Cloud. Here’s why you should use AWS EC2: Advantages of…
Reading Time: 2 minutes An Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 instance, allows you to access a virtual server on the AWS cloud. Unlike an on-premises environment, EC2 Instances are flexible. With EC2, you can build apps, scale, and make virtual machines according to your resources. You can specify the right quantity of bandwidth, CPU, disk storage, and other cloud resources….
Reading Time: 3 minutes AWS offers various kinds of EC2 instances to help you rent space on its cloud. While there are various pricing models, the compute capacity doesn’t change. Therefore, each EC2 instance can help you access enough resources on the cloud. Based on pricing models, you can have the following kinds of Elastic Compute Cloud: This article…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Many of our customers ask for help in reducing the cost of their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. While Amazon EC2 offers a variety of instance types — from 0.5 GiB (t3a.nano, t3.nano, t2.nano) to 24 TiB memory (u-24tb1.metal) — it can be challenging to pick the right resource for the right workload….
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