Right Size Your Amazon EC2 Workload

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Over-provisioning your resources can lead to unnecessary cost and under-provisioning resources can lead to poor performance. In this course, you explore how to cost optimize and rightsize your Amazon EC2 instances. 

Level

Intermediate

Duration

2 Hours 0 Minutes

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Evaluate current Amazon EC2 instances to determine if they are rightsized.
• Describe how instance type selection affects rightsizing and cost optimization of your Amazon EC2 workload.
• Identify considerations of moving to a new instance type to cost optimize and rightsize your Amazon EC2 instance.
• Describe the process for changing an Amazon EC2 instance type based on compatibility and architectural considerations.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud architects
• Developers
• Operations engineers
  
  

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Cloud Practitioner Certification
• AWS Compute Services Overview
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Basics
• Build with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud 

Course Outline

Section 1: Course Introduction and Scenario
•    Lesson 1: Introduction
•    Lesson 2: Course Scenario
Section 2: Using AWS Tools and Services to Monitor Costs
•    Lesson 3: Investigating Increasing Costs
•    Lesson 4: Identifying Trends
•    Lesson 5: Tracking Cost and Usage Data
•    Lesson 6: Analyzing Utilization with AWS Compute Optimizer
Section 3: Selecting the Right Amazon EC2 Instance for Your Workload
•    Lesson 7: Reviewing Amazon EC2 Instance Types
•    Lesson 8: AWS Nitro System
•    Lesson 9: Processors and Specialized Instances
Section 4: Determining Compatibility in Rightsizing Amazon EC2 Instances
•    Lesson 10: Evaluating Instance Type Compatibility
•    Lesson 11: Rightsizing Instances to Match Workloads
•    Lesson 12: Understanding Architectural Considerations
•    Lesson 13: Rightsizing Best Practices
•    Lesson 14: Tagging Strategies for Rightsizing
Section 5: How to Change Your Instance Type
•    Lesson 15: Changing Compatible Instance Types
•    Lesson 16: Changing Instances with Compatibility Issues
•    Lesson 17: Changing Instance Types in Auto Scaling Groups
Section 6: Course Scenario Summary
•    Lesson 18: Scenario Conclusion
•    Lesson 19: Knowledge Check
Section 7: Additional Resources and Feedback
•    Lesson 20: Additional Resources
•    Lesson 21: Course Feedback