Python Microservices Development

Deploying on EC2 with CoreOS

Let's click on the Launch Instance blue button, and pick an AMI to run a new VM:

Under Community AMIs, you can search for an instance of CoreOS to list all the available CoreOS AMIs.

There are two types of AMI: Paravirtual (PV) or Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM). These are the two different levels of virtualization in the Xen hypervisor. PV is full virtualization, whereas HVM is partial virtualization. Depending on the Linux distribution, you might not be able to run all types of VMs under PV.

If you just want to play around, select the first PV AMI in the list. Then, in the next screen, pick a t1.micro, and go ...