Amazon EC2: Auto Scaling and Innovations

Explore Amazon EC2 capabilities and Auto Scaling

Explore the evolution of Amazon EC2, from diverse instance families and pricing models to the AWS Nitro System and its role in enhancing performance, security, networking, and storage. Then, discover how EC2 Auto Scaling groups, policies, and scaling methods dynamically adjust capacity to respond to changing application demand, supported by a practical demonstration of configuring and triggering Auto Scaling.

Discover how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling responds to demand

Move from EC2 capabilities into Auto Scaling, exploring how scaling groups and policies work together to maintain application capacity as demand changes through hands-on configuration and practical application.

You’ll access learning content and practical activities online through Amazon Web Services (AWS), alongside your FutureLearn course experience, giving you direct access to AWS learning as you progress.

This course is ideal for IT professionals, cloud practitioners, developers, architects, and anyone seeking to understand Amazon EC2 instance options, and pricing.

This course is ideal for IT professionals, cloud practitioners, developers, architects, and anyone seeking to understand Amazon EC2 instance options, and pricing.

• Describe the founding and growth of Amazon EC2 over time
• Identify the main instance types available in Amazon EC2 and their key differences, benefits, and use cases
• Summarize the capabilities of different Amazon EC2 instance families including general purpose, compute/memory/storage optimized, and accelerated computing
• Explain the purpose and benefits of the AWS Nitro System for improving security, networking and storage within Amazon EC2 instances
• Compare and contrast the various pricing models and billing options available for Amazon EC2 instances