Amazon EC2 best practices
Here are some of the best practices to get the maximum benefit from your Amazon EC2 instance:
- You can use approved AMIs and not the blacklisted AMIs to launch AWS EC2 instances.
- You can create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from an existing instance and save the configuration as a template. You can use this template to launch instances in the future. This instance should be encrypted to meet compliance and security requirements.
- Make sure that you are using custom resource tags with proper naming conventions to track AWS resources.
- Optimize cost by removing any unassociated Elastic IP addresses and unused Amazon Machine Images.
- Take frequent backups of EBS volumes using Amazon EBS Snapshots.
- For high availability and to handle failover, you can launch your Amazon EC2 instance inside an Auto Scaling Group.
- You can also attach an Elastic IP address or network interface to handle the failover.
- Make sure that you will not reach the limit set by AWS for Amazon EC2 instances....
