AWS Cloud Server Amazon EC2 Comprehensive Evaluation: Is Cloud Computing's Leading Brother Worth Buying?
When talking about cloud servers in China, you may think of Tengxun Cloud and Aliyun for the first time. But if you look at the world and talk about the "originator of the industry" and "absolute big brother" of cloud computing, all the spotlight will be on AWS (Amazon Web Services).
Amazon EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud)
On one’s body.
Since its introduction in 2006, EC2 has been running for two decades. It almost defines what "elastic computing" is, and it is also the bottom standard for countless overseas enterprises, multinational factories and technology geeks.
However, for many domestic novices or students who are accustomed to the domestic cloud vendor package, when they first open the AWS console to see EC2, they are often confused:
There are a lot of instance types (C series, M series, T series, R series...), the billing method is as complex as a book, and the console interface is full of cold "industrial wind".
Today, we're conducting a comprehensive in-depth review of Amazon EC2 from the perspective of real developers and architects. Don't carry the official instructions, only talk about dry goods, pain points and down-to-earth vernacular, help you thoroughly understand the world's strongest "cloud computer".
Why can 1. EC2 be the industry leader? Three Hard Core Advantages Evaluation
In this extremely competitive cloud era, there are countless rising stars, so why can EC2 still take the top spot? After our in-depth use and evaluation, the performance of the following three dimensions can be called the industry ceiling:
1. Instance matrix: only you can't think of it, without it
The server classification of domestic cloud vendors is generally "general-purpose, computing, and memory. The EC2 instance types (Instance Types) are so many that people can point out, just like a super car factory, from economical scooters to F1 racing cars.
T series (such as t3, t4g): "economic car with points". Suitable for personal blog, development and testing environment. At ordinary times, it accumulates CPU points when nothing happens, and consumes points when encountering sudden traffic. It is very cost-effective.
M series (such as m6i, m7g): "all-round high-end sedan". The ratio of computing power and memory 1:4 gold, enterprise production environment, official website, small and medium-sized database of no brain of choice.
C Series (e. g. C6i, C7G): "Heavy Truck/Performance Sports Car". Focus on high computing performance, suitable for video transcoding, game server, scientific computing.
R/X series: Designed for memory-tight businesses (such as Redis cache and SAP HANA database), the memory is surprisingly large.
P/G Series: The computing monster with the top NVIDIA GPU mounted on it now relies on them for AI large model training and graphics rendering.
2. Nitro architecture: squeezing hardware performance to the last drop of oil and water
In the cloud computing industry, virtualization itself is about eating server performance (I. e.
"Virtualization Loss"). In the past, when you bought a 2-core server, you may have 0.2 cores of computing power that the system took to manage the network and the underlying security.
AWS took years to develop
The Nitro System
. It has stripped the network, storage, security management and other chores to its own hardware chip.
Measured experience: 100 of the host's CPU and memory can be delivered to the user's EC2 instance without reservation. This makes EC2 extremely stable in computing power, with little interference from neighbors "grabbing resources", and network throughput and disk IOPS can easily reach the physical limit.
3. Global infrastructure ecology: the "dimension reduction blow" of the offshore business"
If you are doing foreign trade, cross-border e-commerce and sea games, EC2 can play a terrorist power with AWS's global Region (region) and global backbone network. You can deploy your business in Tokyo, Frankfurt or the East of the United States with one click. Using AWS's exclusive submarine optical cable, the delay and packet loss rate of cross-border transmission are extremely low, which is completely unmatched by self-built computer rooms or small cloud manufacturers.
2. Tencent/Ali vs AWS: Several "Counter-intuitive" Experiences of EC2
Many students who are accustomed to the operation logic of domestic cloud manufacturers often step on thunder when using EC2, because their product design philosophies are completely different.
There is no such thing as "annual and monthly bandwidth limit": when buying servers in China, we are used to choosing "2M bandwidth" or "5M bandwidth". However, in the EC2 world, instances are not limited in bandwidth and run as fast as they can by default (many instances come standard with a bandwidth of several Gbps or even 25Gbps). AWS does not jam bandwidth, but charges you for your outbound traffic (Data Transfer Out). Real reminder: This design will never let your website get stuck because of sudden traffic, but if you encounter malicious traffic or are attacked by hackers, next month's traffic bill may make you cry. Therefore, accessing the CloudFront(CDN) or configuring anti-theft chain is a compulsory course.
Self-developed Graviton chips: AWS is the most successful manufacturer of self-developed ARM chips in the industry. In the evaluation, we strongly recommend that you try more examples with "g" suffix (such as c7g, m7g). These are examples of self-developed Graviton chips based on AWS. Measured data: running the same Linux back-end code (such as Node.js, Python, Java), the Graviton instance is about 20% cheaper than the same generation Intel (Intel) instance, but the performance is improved by 10% ~ 20%. As long as your code can run under the ARM architecture, changing it can directly save the company a lot of money.
3.'s Guide to Avoiding Pits: How to Understand EC2's "Book of Heaven" Billing?
EC2 works well, but it
The billing of is indeed a well-known "complex" in the industry ". If you do not understand the rules, it is easy to spend money. Here's a big vernacular dismantling of its three main purchase models:
1. On-demand instance (On-Demand): how much to pay
It's like driving a shared bicycle, turning it on to calculate money, turning it off to stop counting. Hourly pay is the most expensive, but wins in freedom, suitable for short-term testing or new business online mapping.
Newcomers must know: after clicking "Stop" server, CPU and memory do not charge money, but EBS cloud hard disk (storage) hanging on this server is still charging continuously! Do not think that the shutdown is completely free.
2. Spot Instances: the highest level of wool
This is a unique benefit of the sheer size of the AWS infrastructure. AWS put its own idle server computing power around the world and put it up for public auction like stock.
Features: The price is outrageous, up to 90% cheaper than the on-demand mode (10% discount for servers)!
Fatal weakness: instability. Once more people buy servers at the normal price, AWS will notify you 2 minutes in advance when it finds that there is not enough stock, and then forcibly take back your Spot server and shut it down.
How to use: absolutely can't put the database and the core official website. However, it is very suitable for running stateless distributed computing, large-scale video transcoding, or running batch training of AI models-even if it is broken, it is a big deal to change the machine and run again.
4. full review summary: Who is Amazon EC2 right?
After multi-dimensional in-depth testing and practical operation and maintenance exercises, our final evaluation of Amazon EC2 is as follows:
It is not suitable:
Just want to build a simple personal blog, budget is extremely tight, and do not want to mess with complex network configuration (such as VPC, security group) pure white. Such users to buy domestic manufacturers of lightweight application server (Lighthouse) will be more worry.
It is the "Absolute King" of the following scenes ":
Enterprises going out to sea and cross-border business: need to use a unified set of technical architecture, security compliance standards, in the global rapid spread of business multinational team.
Projects with obsessive-compulsive disorder for high availability: perfect combination of AWS multi-availability zone (Multi-AZ) and Auto Scaling (automatic elastic expansion and contraction) can ensure that the hardware is broken, the computer room is powered off, and the business still drifts automatically and is stable as Mount Tai.
Cutting-edge technology enterprises: teams that need the latest and top-level computing power support (such as the latest NVIDIA H100/H200 GPU instance and high-performance network architecture) and are struggling with big data analysis, AI large models and high-concurrency architecture.
Conclusion:
The greatness of Amazon EC2 lies not in how amazing one of its stand-alone indicators is, but in the fact that behind it stands the most mature ecology of cloud computing in the world, the most stringent security compliance bottom line, and the stability verified by millions of large factories. When you play through its instance selection and Savi
With ngs Plans billing, this cloud computer will become the most handy digital heavy weapon in your hands and will never fall off the chain.
