Chapter 1. Selecting and Configuring Amazon EC2 Instances

In this chapter, we will cover recipes for:

• Choosing the right AWS EC2 instance types
• Preparing AWS CLI tools
• Launching EC2 instances using EC2-Classic and EC2-VPC
• Allocating Elastic IP addresses
• Creating an instance with multiple NIC cards and a static private IP address
• Selecting the right storage for your EC2 instance
• Creating tags for consistency
• Configuring security groups
• Creating an EC2 key pair
• Grouping EC2 instances using placement groups
• Configuring Elastic Load Balancing
• Architecting for high availability
• Creating instances for AWS Marketplace