AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Cert Guide, 2nd Edition

Chapter 13

Designing Cost-Effective Compute Solutions

This chapter covers the following topics:

• EC2 Instance Types

• EC2 Instance Purchasing Options

• Strategies for Optimizing Compute

This chapter covers content that’s important to the following exam domain and task statement:

Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

Task Statement 2: Design cost-optimized compute solutions

There are hundreds of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to consider deploying for a wide variety of workloads. EC2 instances also have a variety of pricing options to consider when deploying compute resources at AWS. EC2 instances can be deployed at AWS and on premises for hybrid deployments. Recall from Chapter 2, “The AWS Well-Architected Framework,” that ...