Optimizing Amazon EC2 for High-Performance Computing, Big Data, and Disaster Recovery Strategies

This chapter strives to equip readers with practical guidance and a comprehensive understanding of leveraging Amazon EC2 for high-performance computing (HPC) and big data applications, alongside essential disaster recovery (DR) strategies. The journey begins with laying the groundwork through the introduction of HPC and big data on Amazon EC2, highlighting specialized EC2 instances and graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators designed for this demanding workload. The narrative then shifts to big data solutions, emphasizing Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) and Amazon Redshift as pivotal tools for processing vast warehousing datasets.

Further through, the chapter will look into the intricacies of HPC and Big Data Clusters, focusing on network configurations and storage optimizations to improve performance. We will then transition into DR strategies, understanding the importance of DR...