(SDD406) Amazon EC2 Instances Deep Dive | AWS re:Invent 2014
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Transcript of (SDD406) Amazon EC2 Instances Deep Dive | AWS re:Invent 2014
November 12, 2014 | Las Vegas, NV
John Phillips, Product Manager, Amazon EC2
Anthony Liguori, Principal Engineer, Amazon EC2
• What is the EC2 instance platform and a
virtualization primer
• How to make the most of your EC2 instance
experience through the lens of three instance types
• How to think about the future of EC2 instances
EC2EC2
Host Server
Hypervisor
Guest 1 Guest 2 Guest n
c3.largeInstance family
Instance generation
Instance size
Model vCPU CPU Credits
/ Hour
Memory
(GiB)
Storage
t2.micro 1 6 1 EBS Only
t2.small 1 12 2 EBS Only
t2.medium 2 24 4 EBS Only
http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/low-cost-
burstable-ec2-instances/
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t2/
Baseline Rate
Credit
Balance
Burst
Rate
Model vCPU Memory
(GiB)
Storage Read IOPS Write IOPS
i2.xlarge 4 30.5 1 x 800 SSD 35,000 35,000
i2.2xlarge 8 61 2 x 800 SSD 75,000 75,000
i2.4xlarge 16 122 4 x 800 SSD 175,000 155,000
i2.8xlarge 32 244 8 x 800 SSD 365,000 315,000
read(fd, buffer, BLOCK_SIZE)
read(fd, buffer, BLOCK_SIZE)
Model vCPU Memory (GiB) Storage (GB)
c3.large 2 3.75 2 x 16 SSD
c3.xlarge 4 7.5 2 x 40 SSD
c3.2xlarge 8 15 2 x 80 SSD
c3.4xlarge 16 30 2 x 160 SSD
c3.8xlarge 32 60 2 x 320 SSD
Kernel
Application
Kernel
Application
VMM
Application
VMM
Kernel
Bare Metal PV-HVM PV
EC2EC2
http://bit.ly/awsevals