Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Elastic Block Store

This chapter explores the tools and practices used to fully leverage the power of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) ecosystem. It helps the readers to learn about both Elastic Block Store and instance store volumes and the ways they work with EC2 instances. Amazon Web Service (AWS) resource tags can be used to label everything the reader will ever touch across AWS account—they're certainly not restricted to just EC2. Storage drives (or volumes as they're described in AWS documentation) are for the most part virtualized spaces carved out of larger physical drives. The EC2 Auto Scaling service offers a way to both avoid application failure and recover from it when it happens. AWS Systems Manager lets the readers automatically or manually perform actions against their AWS resources and on‐premises servers. The chapter presents an example code that shows how the readers can use an AWS CLI command to deploy an EC2 instance.