Amazon EC2 features – Amazon Web Service
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Amazon EC2 features – Amazon Web Service
Amazon EC2 provides the broadest and deepest instance choice to match your workload’s needs. General purpose, compute optimized, memory-optimized, storage optimized, and accelerated computing instance types are available that provide the optimal compute, memory, storage, and networking balance for your workloads. Processors from Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and AWS power these instance types and provide additional performance and cost optimizations. Local storage and enhanced networking options available with instance type further help optimize performance for disk or network I/O bound workloads. Many instance types also offer bare metal instances that provide your applications with direct access to the processor and memory of the underlying server for running in non-virtualized environments or for applications where you want to use your hypervisor. To find the right instance for your workload, visit the EC2 instance types page. You can also use the AWS Compute Optimizer to get recommendations on optimal AWS Compute resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance.
Global Infrastructure
Multiple Locations
Amazon EC2 provides the ability to place instances in multiple locations. Amazon EC2 locations are composed of Regions and Availability Zones. Availability Zones are distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones and provide inexpensive, low latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region. Launching instances in separate Availability Zones can protect your applications from failure in a single location. Regions consist of one or more Availability Zones and are geographically dispersed. The Amazon EC2 Service Level Agreement commitment is 99.99% availability for each Amazon EC2 Region. Please refer to Regional Products and Services for more details of our product and service availability by region.
High Precision Time with Amazon Time Sync Service
The Amazon Time Sync Service provides a highly accurate, reliable, and available time source to AWS services including EC2 instances. For instructions on how to access the service, see the Setting the Time sections of the Linux and Windows User Guides.
Choice of operating systems and software
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are preconfigured with an ever-growing list of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and Linux distributions such as Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE, and Debian. We work with our partners and community to provide you with the most choice possible. The AWS Marketplace features a wide selection of commercial and free software from well-known vendors, designed to run on your EC2 instances.
Cost and Capacity Optimization
Pay for What You Use
With per-second billing, you only pay for what you use. It takes the cost of unused minutes and seconds in an hour off of the bill, so you can focus on improving your applications instead of maximizing usage to the hour. Learn more about EC2 pricing.
Scale Seamlessly with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down according to conditions you define. You can use the dynamic and predictive scaling policies within EC2 Auto Scaling to add or remove EC2 instances. Predictive scaling uses machine learning to proactively allocate instances based on anticipated demand, and dynamic scaling allows you to scale compute based on defined metrics. With EC2 Auto Scaling, you can ensure that the number of Amazon EC2 instances you’re using scales up seamlessly during demand spikes to maintain performance and scales down automatically during demand lulls to minimize costs. See Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for more details.
Optimize Computer Performance and Cost with Amazon EC2 Fleet
Amazon EC2 Fleet lets you provision compute capacity across EC2 instance types, Availability Zones, and purchase models to help optimize scale, performance, and cost with a single, API call. Read FAQs and this AWS blog to learn more. You can also access EC2 Fleet capabilities via Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to provision and automatically scale compute capacity across EC2 instance types, Availability Zones, and purchase options in a single Auto Scaling Group.
Storage
Optimal storage for every workload
Different Amazon EC2 workloads can have vastly different storage requirements. Beyond the built-in instance storage, we also offer Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to suit other cloud storage workload requirements. Amazon EBS provides persistent, highly available, consistent, low-latency block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances, while Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable, persistent, fully managed cloud file storage for shared access.