{"id":718,"date":"2016-02-05T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T12:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/?p=718"},"modified":"2017-06-14T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T11:34:14","slug":"elastic-compute-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/elastic-compute-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Elastic compute cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">When we talk about AWS (Amazon Web Services) the basic name comes first &#8220;EC2&#8221;, Lets talk about EC2. What exactly EC2 is ?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is an service which provides you a kind of virtual OS, in short you can say it provides you a virtual computing environment in which you can setup your web applications, static &amp; dynamic sites of yours and all what you want to host through EC2 instance. It does not take your much time to configure &amp; boot new server instance. It gets ready in just some minutes instead of taking long hours and allow you the instance through terminal to setup n configure your server as your computing requirement. It also provide you the complete control of your computing resources.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u><b>SNAPSHOT<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">You can take snapshot of your running volume in instance to avoid the data loss if somehow your volume gets failed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u><b>ELASTIC BLOCK STORAGE<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">EBS (Elastic Block Storage) provides block level storage with your EC2 instance &amp; every EBS volume automatically replicated with its Availability Zone to protect you from component failures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">It also provides a low latency performance needed to run your workloads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u><b>ELASTIC IP<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Elastic IP is a static IP &amp; If you will not assign elastic IP to your instance then after every reboot\u00a0of your instance, your IP will be changed, so y<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">ou can assign elastic IP <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">(static IP) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">to your instance to avoid the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">frequently <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">chang<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">ing <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> IP after every restart <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">of your instance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u><b>LOAD BALANCER<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Elastic Load Balancer automatically distribute the incoming load of your website to avoid having your website slow. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><u><b>PRICING<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">AWS says that you pay only what you actually use. I would say that we pay a very low rate for the compute capacity we actually consume. For more kindly visit <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/pricing\/\">http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/pricing\/<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><b>Now Lets talk how to run EC2 Instance and what all OS it provides:-<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><b>Lets Launch the EC2 Instance which is quite simple:-<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">1.First Logon to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">aws management console, on the services menu, click on EC2.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">2.Click on Launch Instance<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">3.Select the OS which you want, like i would go with Ubuntu Server 14.04 64 Bit &amp; click on next<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">4.Select your instance type what you have bought, i would go with t2.micro then click on next<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">5.Now select the number of instance, i would make only one &amp; then select network IP and subnet then click on Add Storage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">6.As per your need select the storage, i would go with 8 Gb &amp; then click on next<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">7.Now give the key name &amp; value of your instance and then click on next Configure Security Group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">8.Now its totally up to you that you want to\u00a0create new security group or existing security group, i would go with new security group then Add Rule like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">ssh type &amp; select my IP in source column because<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0i want ssh access only from my ip rather than from anywhere.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">add HTTP &amp; select from anywhere.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">add HTTPS &amp; select from anywhere.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">select any other rule what you want, i would go with these three rules only.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">9.Now select review &amp; Launch<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">10.Now at last launch your instance &amp; after clicking Launch, you will get a window of creating a new key pair. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I would create new key pair by selecting the create a new key pair then give the name of your PEM file whatsoever and then click on Download new key pair, after that click on Launch instance to launch your instance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Then your instance will be created and you can access it through the PEM file which you created just before launching the instance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudkul.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">IN CASE OF ANY QUERY, PLEASE CONTACT US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we talk about AWS (Amazon Web Services) the basic name comes first &#8220;EC2&#8221;, Lets <a class=\"text-primary\" title=\"read more\" href=\"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/elastic-compute-cloud\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2],"tags":[16,4],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - 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