The document summarizes different compute options on AWS including Amazon EC2, ECS, Lambda, and Lightsail. It provides an overview of each service, discussing how they compare in terms of what AWS manages versus what customers manage. EC2 is infrastructure as a service, ECS is container management as a service, Lambda is serverless functions, and Lightsail offers simple virtual private servers. The document aims to help customers understand which compute option is best for different types of applications and workload needs.

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Getting started with AWS: Compute
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Cobus Bernard
Sr Developer Advocate
Amazon Web Services
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Agenda
Quick review of compute
Amazon EC2
Amazon ECS
AWS Lambda
Amazon Lightsail
Q&A

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Subnet Subnet
Subnet Subnet
VPC
Availability Zone
US-EAST-1A
Availability Zone
US-EAST-1B
Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
172.31. 172.31.
172.31. 172.31.
Subnet
Subnet
Availability Zone
US-EAST-1C
172.31.
172.31.
172.31.0.0/16:
172.31.0.1
to
172.31.255.254
=
65534 host IPs
/24 = 254 hosts
/20 = 4096 hosts

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Amazon EC2
Virtual servers in the cloud
Physical servers in
AWS global Regions
Guest 1 Guest 2 Guest n
Hypervisor
Host server
EC2 instances

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Amazon EBS
EC2
instance
EBS
volume
EBS
snapshot
gp2 io1
st1 sc1
EBS SSD-
backed
volumes
EBS
HDD-
backed
volumes
Amazon S3
Block storage as a service
Create, attach, modify through an API
Select storage and compute based
on your workload
Detach and attach between instances
Choice of magnetic and SSD-based
volume types
Supports snapshots: Point-in-time
backup of modified volume blocks

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Amazon EC2 instance characteristics
M5d.xlarge
Instance family
Instance
generation
Instance size
Instance type
CPU
Memory
Storage
Network performance
Additional
capabilities

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AWS manages Customer manages
Data source integrations
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Provisioning
Application code
Container orchestration, provisioning
Cluster scaling
Physical hardware, host OS/kernel,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Security config
and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Container orchestration control plane
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Work clusters
Security config and updates,
network config, firewall, and
management tasks
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Scaling
Security config and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Provisioning, managing scaling
and patching of servers
Compute options
AWS Lambda
Serverless functions
AWS Fargate
Serverless containers
Amazon ECS/EKS
Container-management
-as-a-service
Amazon EC2
Infrastructure-as-a-service
Less
More
Opinionated

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AWS manages Customer manages
Data source integrations
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Provisioning
Application code
Container orchestration, provisioning
Cluster scaling
Physical hardware, host OS/kernel,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Security config
and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Container orchestration control plane
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Work clusters
Security config and updates,
network config, firewall, and
management tasks
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Scaling
Security config and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Provisioning, managing scaling
and patching of servers
Amazon EC2
AWS Lambda
Serverless functions
AWS Fargate
Serverless containers
Amazon ECS/EKS
Container-management
-as-a-service
Amazon EC2
Infrastructure-as-a-service
Less
More
Opinionated

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Amazon EC2 launch checklist
VPC
Subnet
Security Group
IAM Role
Configuring
Backups

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AWS manages Customer manages
Data source integrations
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Provisioning
Application code
Container orchestration, provisioning
Cluster scaling
Physical hardware, host OS/kernel,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Security config
and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Container orchestration control plane
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Work clusters
Security config and updates,
network config, firewall, and
management tasks
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Scaling
Security config and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Provisioning, managing scaling
and patching of servers
Amazon EC2: Infrastructure-as-a-service
AWS Lambda
Serverless functions
AWS Fargate
Serverless containers
Amazon ECS/EKS
Container-management
-as-a-service
Amazon EC2
Infrastructure-as-a-service
Less
More
Opinionated

14. Customers have lots
of pieces to operate

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AWS manages Customer manages
Data source integrations
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Provisioning
Application code
Container orchestration, provisioning
Cluster scaling
Physical hardware, host OS/kernel,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Security config
and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Container orchestration control plane
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Work clusters
Security config and updates,
network config, firewall, and
management tasks
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Scaling
Security config and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Provisioning, managing scaling
and patching of servers
Amazon ECS/EKS: Container-management-as-a-service
AWS Lambda
Serverless functions
AWS Fargate
Serverless containers
Amazon ECS/EKS
Container-management
-as-a-service
Amazon EC2
Infrastructure-as-a-service
Less
More
Opinionated

16. ECS
agent
Docker
agent
OS
Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) instance
ECS
agent
Docker
agent
OS
EC2 instance
ECS
agent
Docker
agent
OS
EC2 instance
Amazon Elastic Container Service
(Amazon ECS)

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AWS manages Customer manages
Data source integrations
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Provisioning
Application code
Container orchestration, provisioning
Cluster scaling
Physical hardware, host OS/kernel,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Security config
and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Container orchestration control plane
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Work clusters
Security config and updates,
network config, firewall, and
management tasks
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Scaling
Security config and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Provisioning, managing scaling
and patching of servers
Amazon ECS/EKS: Container-management-as-a-service
AWS Lambda
Serverless functions
AWS Fargate
Serverless containers
Amazon ECS/EKS
Container-management
-as-a-service
Amazon EC2
Infrastructure-as-a-service
Less
More
Opinionated

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20. ECS
agent
Docker
agent
OS
Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) instance
ECS
agent
Docker
agent
OS
EC2 instance
ECS
agent
Docker
agent
OS
EC2 instance
Amazon Elastic Container Service
(Amazon ECS)

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AWS manages Customer manages
Data source integrations
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Provisioning
Application code
Container orchestration, provisioning
Cluster scaling
Physical hardware, host OS/kernel,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Security config
and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Container orchestration control plane
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Work clusters
Security config and updates,
network config, firewall, and
management tasks
Physical hardware, software,
networking, and facilities
Application code
Data source integrations
Scaling
Security config and updates
Network config
Management tasks
Provisioning, managing scaling
and patching of servers
Serverless operations with AWS Fargate and Lambda
AWS Lambda
Serverless functions
AWS Fargate
Serverless containers
Amazon ECS/EKS
Container-management
-as-a-service
Amazon EC2
Infrastructure-as-a-service
Less
More
Opinionated

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What our customers want
Build applications,
not infrastructure
Scale quickly
and seamlessly
Security and
isolation by design

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Anatomy of an AWS Lambda function
Handler() function
Function to be executed
upon invocation
Event object
Data sent during Lambda
function invocation
Context object
Methods available to
interact with runtime
information (request ID,
log group, more)
import json
def lambda_handler(event, context):
# TODO implement
return {
'statusCode': 200,
'body': json.dumps('Hello World!')
}

25. Anatomy of a Lambda functionImport sdk
Import http-lib
Import ham-sandwich
Pre-handler-secret-getter()
Pre-handler-db-connect()
Function myhandler(event, context) {
<Event handling logic> {
result = SubfunctionA()
}else {
result = SubfunctionB()
return result;
}
Function Pre-handler-secret-getter() {
}
Function Pre-handler-db-connect(){
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Function subFunctionB(thing){
## logic here
}
Business logic sub-functions
Your handler
Dependencies, configuration information,
common helper functions
Common helper functions

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Anatomy of a serverless application
/orders
/forums
/search
/lists
/user
/...
Amazon API
Gateway
AWS Secrets
Manager /
Parameter Store
Amazon
DynamoDB
Import sdk
Import http-lib
Import ham-sandwich
Pre-handler-secret-getter()
Pre-handler-db-connect()
Function myhandler(event, context) {
<Event handling logic> {
result = SubfunctionA()
}else {
result = SubfunctionB()
return result;
}
Function Pre-handler-secret-getter() {
}
Function Pre-handler-db-connect(){
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Dependencies, configuration
information, common helper functions
Common helper functions
Business logic sub-functions
Your handler
Import sdk
Import http-lib
Import ham-sandwich
Pre-handler-secret-getter()
Pre-handler-db-connect()
Function myhandler(event, context) {
<Event handling logic> {
result = SubfunctionA()
}else {
result = SubfunctionB()
return result;
}
Function Pre-handler-secret-getter() {
}
Function Pre-handler-db-connect(){
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Dependencies, configuration
information, common helper functions
Common helper functions
Business logic sub-functions
Your handler
Import sdk
Import http-lib
Import ham-sandwich
Pre-handler-secret-getter()
Pre-handler-db-connect()
Function myhandler(event, context) {
<Event handling logic> {
result = SubfunctionA()
}else {
result = SubfunctionB()
return result;
}
Function Pre-handler-secret-getter() {
}
Function Pre-handler-db-connect(){
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Dependencies, configuration
information, common helper functions
Common helper functions
Business logic sub-functions
Your handler
Import sdk
Import http-lib
Import ham-sandwich
Pre-handler-secret-getter()
Pre-handler-db-connect()
Function myhandler(event, context) {
<Event handling logic> {
result = SubfunctionA()
}else {
result = SubfunctionB()
return result;
}
Function Pre-handler-secret-getter() {
}
Function Pre-handler-db-connect(){
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Dependencies, configuration
information, common helper functions
Common helper functions
Business logic sub-functions
Your handler
Import sdk
Import http-lib
Import ham-sandwich
Pre-handler-secret-getter()
Pre-handler-db-connect()
Function myhandler(event, context) {
<Event handling logic> {
result = SubfunctionA()
}else {
result = SubfunctionB()
return result;
}
Function Pre-handler-secret-getter() {
}
Function Pre-handler-db-connect(){
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Dependencies, configuration
information, common helper functions
Common helper functions
Business logic sub-functions
Your handler
Import sdk
Import http-lib
Import ham-sandwich
Pre-handler-secret-getter()
Pre-handler-db-connect()
Function myhandler(event, context) {
<Event handling logic> {
result = SubfunctionA()
}else {
result = SubfunctionB()
return result;
}
Function Pre-handler-secret-getter() {
}
Function Pre-handler-db-connect(){
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Function subFunctionA(thing){
## logic here
}
Dependencies, configuration
information, common helper functions
Common helper functions
Business logic sub-functions
Your handler

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Cobus Bernard
Sr Developer Advocate
Amazon Web Services
@cobusbernard
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