Everything Else EC2!
Lesson 7
In this lesson, you’ll get a high-level overview of many other parts of EC2. Remember, this course only covers the hands-on topics you need to know to land your first gig, and in no way claims to be comprehensive. Make note of the Good to Know sections at the end of each lesson if you are looking for more topics and concepts to cover.
TODO:
- Section on creating your own AMI (taking a snapshot).
In this lesson, we will cover:
- EBS Volumes
- EFS
- possibly activity where you mount an efs file system volume (see linux academy)
- Elastic IPs
- Snapshots
- Tags
- AWS name of resources v terraform name of resources
Table of contents
EBS Volumes
MATT TO FILL OUT WHAT IT IS
- What is it? Different types, how to customize, etc.
- Add to terraform.
Elastic IPs
MATT TO FILL OUT WHAT IT IS
- What is it and when you’d need to use it
- Launch in terraform, go to public IP and see it
Snapshots
MATT TO FILL OUT WHAT IT IS
- What is a snapshot? What’s it used for? How to take one?
- Can be used to create an AMI.
- create your own ami with httpd already on it (no longer need user data!)
- tags
Tags
- You can add tags in the AWS Console as well as in Terraform. Tags come in handy when organizing resources in the same account. Client application, different environments, deployed by terraform, etc.