Summary and Quiz

In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned in this chapter and test our knowledge of the AWS compute services with a short quiz.

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the different AWS compute services. Here’s a summary of the key takeaways from this chapter:

• Amazon EC2 provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud. It allows users to run virtual servers, known as instances, for various computing tasks. 

  • EC2 allows running virtual servers, known as instances, of different types based on the requirements.

  • Each instance can be pre-configured using an AMI template of software configurations.

  • EC2 also provisions different Network and storage options.

• Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service, and it requires a task definition to specify how containers should be configured, including image, CPU, and other requirements.

  • The instantiation of a task definition is known as a Task, and a logical group of infrastructure is known as a cluster that runs the task or service (used to maintain a specified number of tasks).