AWS

Differences between Dedicated Instances and Dedicated Hosts

Dedicated Instances and Dedicated Hosts can both be used to launch Amazon EC2 instances onto physical servers that

are dedicated for your use.

There are no performance, security, or physical differences between Dedicated Instances and instances on Dedicated

Hosts. However, there are some differences between the two. The following table highlights some of the key differences

between Dedicated Instances and Dedicated Hosts:

Dedicated Host Dedicated

Instance

Billing Per-host billing Per-instance

billing

Visibility of sockets, cores, Provides visibility of the number of sockets and No visibility

and host ID physical cores

Host and instance affinity Allows you to consistently deploy your instances to Not supported

the same physical server over time

Targeted instance Provides additional visibility and control over how Not supported

placement instances are placed on a physical server

Automatic instance Supported. For more information, see Host recovery. Supported
recovery

Bring Your Own License Supported Partial support

(BYOL) *

Capacity Reservations Not supported Supported

AWS EFS, EBS and S3: Best AWS Storage Option
Elastic File Storage (EFS), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), and Simple Storage Service
(S3) are AWS’s three different storage types that can be used for different types of workload
needs.

Difference Between EFS, EBS, and S3

Now let’s take a look into the differences between Elastic File System, Elastic Block Storage,
and Simple Storage Service

 Accessibility: S3 is publically accessible and you do not need a server to

access it while EBS can only be accessed via EC2 machine and EFS can be
accessed via several EC2 machines and AWS Services.
 Interface: S3 provides you a web interface while EBS provides a file system
interface and EFS provides a web and file system interface.
 Storage Type: AWS S3 is object storage while Amazon EBS is block storage
and Amazon EFS is file storage.
 Scalability: Amazon S3 and EFS are highly scalable while EBS is hardly
scalable.
 Speed: Amazon S3 is slowest among the three and comes under tier 3 while
Amazon EBS is fastest among the all and comes under tier 0 and Amazon EFS
is faster than S3 and slower than EBS and comes under tier 1. So based on the
performance hardware will be used in the backend of the storage services
 Backup: Amazon S3 is good for storing backups while EBS is meant to be an
EC2 drive and since EFS is accessible over multiple servers so it’s good for
shareable applications and workloads.
Amazon EC2
PDFRSS
Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute
capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing
easier for developers. The simple web service interface of Amazon EC2
allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction and
with complete control of your computing resources.

On-Demand Instances
With On-Demand Instances, you pay for compute capacity per hour or
per second, depending on which instances you run. No long-term
commitments or up-front payments are required. You can increase or
decrease your compute capacity to meet the demands of your
application and only pay the specified hourly rates for the instance you
use.

Savings Plans
Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that offers low prices on
Amazon EC2, SageMaker (Machine Learning), Lambda (run code
serverless), and Fargate usage (serverless to run containerized apps on
the AWS public cloud with minimal infrastructure management) , in
exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (measured
in $/hour) for a one or three-year term. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing
model that provides savings of up to 72 percent on your AWS compute
usage. This pricing model offers lower prices on Amazon EC2 instances
usage, regardless of instance family, size, operating system (OS),
tenancy, or AWS Region, and also applies to SageMaker, Fargate, and
Lambda usage.

Spot Instances
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances allow you to request spare Amazon EC2
computing capacity for up to 90 percent off the On-Demand price.
RIs
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances provide you with a significant discount
(up to 75 percent) compared to On-Demand Instance pricing. In addition,
when RIs are assigned to a specific Availability Zone, they provide a
capacity reservation, giving you additional confidence in your ability to
launch instances when you need them.

Per-second billing
Per-second billing saves money and has a minimum of 60 seconds
billing.

Lambda
PDFRSS

AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing

servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume; there is no
charge when your code is not running. With Lambda, you can run code
for virtually any type of application or backend service, all with zero
administration. Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of
everything required to run and scale your code with high availability.

Transferencia de datos dentro de la misma región de

AWS
Las transferencias de datos entrantes o salientes a las instancias Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS,
Amazon Redshift, Acelerador de Amazon DynamoDB (DAX) y Amazon ElastiCache, interfaces
de red elásticas o conexiones de emparejamiento de VPC entre zonas de disponibilidad
dentro de una misma región de AWS se facturan a 0,01 USD/GB en cada dirección.

Las transferencias de datos entre instancias Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift,
Amazon ElastiCache e interfaces de red elásticas en la misma zona de disponibilidad son
gratuitas.
Las transferencias de datos directas (ver puntos de enlace) entre Amazon S3, las API directas
de Amazon EBS, Amazon Glacier, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SES, Amazon SQS, Amazon
Kinesis, Amazon ECR, Amazon SNS o Amazon SimpleDB y las instancias de Amazon EC2 en

la misma región de AWS son gratuitas.

Recordar:

ALERTS

Think resource performance monitoring, events, and alerts; think

CloudWatch.

Think account-specific activity and audit; think CloudTrail.

Think resource-specific change history, audit, and compliance; think

Config.

Supports Reservations:

AWS services support reservations to optimize costs

Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI)

Amazon DynamoDB Reserved Capacity
Amazon ElastiCache Reserved Nodes
Amazon RDS RIs
Amazon Redshift Reserved Nodes:
AWS Storage Gateway - AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud
storage service that connects your existing on-premises environments
with the AWS Cloud. Customers use AWS Storage Gateway to simplify
storage management and reduce costs for key hybrid cloud storage use
cases.
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) - AWS Database
Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS
quickly and securely. The source database remains fully operational
during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on
the database. The AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) can
migrate your data to and from the most widely used commercial and
open-source databases.
Amazon Redshift - Amazon Redshift is a fully-managed petabyte-scale cloud-
based data warehouse product designed for large scale data set storage and
analysis.

AWS Trusted Advisor - AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that

provides you real-time guidance to help you provision your resources
following AWS best practices on cost optimization, security, fault
tolerance, service limits and performance improvement. Whether
establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of
ongoing improvement, recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor
regularly help keep your solutions provisioned optimally. Trusted Advisor
cannot be used to debug performance issues for this serverless
application built using a microservices architecture.
Amazon Pinpoint - Amazon Pinpoint allows marketers and developers
to deliver customer-centric engagement experiences by capturing
customer usage data to draw real-time insights. Pinpoint cannot be used
to debug performance issues for this serverless application built using a
microservices architecture.
AWS CloudFormation - AWS CloudFormation allows you to use
programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in
an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your
applications across all Regions and accounts. Think infrastructure as
code; think CloudFormation. CloudFormation cannot be used to debug
performance issues for this serverless application built using a
microservices architecture.

Internet Gateway:
An internet gateway is a horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available
VPC component that allows communication between your VPC and the
internet.
An internet gateway enables resources in your public subnets (such as EC2
instances) to connect to the internet if the resource has a public IPv4 address
or an IPv6 address.
An internet gateway provides a target in your VPC route tables for internet-
routable traffic.

Public and private subnets

If a subnet is associated with a route table that has a route to an

internet gateway, it's known as a public subnet. If a subnet is associated
with a route table that does not have a route to an internet gateway, it's
known as a private subnet.

NAT Device

You can use a NAT device to allow resources in private subnets to connect to
the internet, other VPCs, or on-premises networks. These instances can
communicate with services outside the VPC, but they cannot receive
unsolicited connection requests.
You can use a managed NAT device offered by AWS, called a NAT gateway, or
you can create your own NAT device on an EC2 instance, called a NAT instance.
NAT devices are not supported for IPv6 traffic—use an egress-only internet
gateway instead.
Overview of Data Transfer Costs for Common
Architectures

Data transfer between AWS and internet

Accessing services within the same AWS Region

If the internet gateway is used to access the public endpoint of the AWS services in the same
Region (Figure 1 – Pattern 1), there are no data transfer charges. If a NAT gateway is used to
access the same services (Figure 1 – Pattern 2), there is a data processing charge (per
gigabyte (GB)) for data that passes through the gateway.

Accessing services across AWS Regions

If your workload accesses services in different Regions (Figure 2), there is a charge for data
transfer across Regions. The charge depends on the source and destination Region (as
described on the Amazon EC2 Data Transfer pricing page).