(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

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