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. You also learn about best practices, considerations, and the high-level steps involved in changing your instance type. You have the ability to apply what you learn in a self-paced lab.
Level
Intermediate
Duration
3 Hours 0 MinutesCourse 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 CloudÂ
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
