Compute
Understanding compute resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is fundamental for anyone seeking success in the AWS certification exams. In this chapter, you will explore the diverse compute options available, ranging from traditional instances to modern container services. You will learn about the intricacies of launching, monitoring, and optimizing compute resources, gaining the confidence to tackle exam questions related to compute on AWS.
In this chapter, you are going to cover the following main topics:
- Introduction to compute on AWS
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances
- Elastic Beanstalk for rapid application deployment
- Containers such as Elastic Container Service, Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Fargate and using AWS Batch to run jobs
- Instance security and access methods
- Let’s dive in!