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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. With Amazon EC2, you can develop and deploy applications faster without the need for upfront hardware investments. Amazon EC2 allows you to create as many virtual servers as you need, configure security and networking, and manage storage. It also enables you to handle changes in requirements or usage spikes by scaling up or down, reducing the need for traffic forecasting.

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Resource Setting Values​

  • ami : A supported and maintained image provided by AWS which provides required information to launch an instance
  • instance_type : EC2 instance type
  • included_subnet_name : The name of the subnet where the EC2 instance will be deployed
  • security_group_name : The name of the security group to assign to the EC2 instance's NIC
  • eip_enable : Whether to enable or disable the use of an Elastic IP (EIP) for the EC2 instance - true, false
  • eip_name : The name of the Elastic IP (EIP)
  • http_endpoint : Set whether the metadata service is available - enabled, disabled
  • http_tokens : Set whether or not the metadata service requires session tokens - required, optional
  • root_volume_type : Type of Root Volume - gp2, gp3, io1, io2, sc1, st1, standard
  • root_volume_size : The size of the root volume (GiB)
  • ebs_block_device
    • volume_size : Type of EBS Volume
    • volume_type : Size of the EBS Volume in gibibytes (GiB)

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