AWS Compute Services

1. Elastic Compute Cloud
   • Uses pre-configured AWS Machine Images(AMIs)
   • Uses Elastic Block Store for persistence
   • Allows increasing or decreasing capacity within minutes instead of hours or days
   • provides complete control of instances
   • includes various linux and windows server OS
   • Pay a relatively low rate for the compute capacity consumed
2. Virtual Private Cloud
   • ISa dedicated customer network on the AWS infra
   • Logically separated from other AWS virtual networks
   • Can be used to launch EC2 instances
3. Elastic Load Balancing
   • Critical AWS service for automatically distributing incoming app traffics across many target groups of EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses
   • Handle various loads of your apps in a single or multiple Availability Zones
   • Are of 3 types
     • Network ELB
     • Application ELB
     • Classic ELB
4. AWS EC2 Auto Scaling
   • for fleet management
   • dynamic scaling
   • decrease capacity during downtime
5. Lambda compute services
   • Costs only when code is running