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The document outlines three types of Reserved Instances (RIs) in AWS: Standard RIs offer up to 75% discount for steady-state usage, Convertible RIs provide up to 54% discount with configuration flexibility, and Scheduled RIs are available for specific time windows. It also covers EC2 access requirements, including the necessity of a key pair for instance access, and details on EC2 status checks which occur every minute to monitor hardware and software issues. Additionally, it mentions that stopped EC2 instances do not incur charges, but attached EBS volumes do.

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AWS notes-12

The document outlines three types of Reserved Instances (RIs) in AWS: Standard RIs offer up to 75% discount for steady-state usage, Convertible RIs provide up to 54% discount with configuration flexibility, and Scheduled RIs are available for specific time windows. It also covers EC2 access requirements, including the necessity of a key pair for instance access, and details on EC2 status checks which occur every minute to monitor hardware and software issues. Additionally, it mentions that stopped EC2 instances do not incur charges, but attached EBS volumes do.

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There are 3 types of RI are available such as

a. Standard RI: these provide the most significant discount up to 75% off on-
demand and are best suited for steady-state usage.
b. Convertible RI: these provide a discount up to 54% and the capability to
change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation
of reserved instances of greater or equal value.
c. Scheduled RI: these are available to lunch within the time window you
reserve.

Question: can I transfer a convertible or standard RI from one region to another?


How Do I change the configuration of a convertible RI?
Ans: you can change the configuration of your convertible RI using the EC2
management console of the get reserved instance management quota API.

Question: do I need to pay a fee when I exchange my convertible RI?

EC2 ACCESS:

➢ To access instances you need a key and key-pair name.


➢ You can download the private key only once.
➢ The public key is saved by AWS to match it to the key pair name and private key when
you try to login to the EC2 instances.
➢ Without key pair you cannot access instances via RDP or SSH (linux).
➢ There are 20 EC2 instances soft limit per account, you can submit a request to AWS to
increase it.

EC2 STATUS CHECK:

➢ By default AWS EC2 instance performs automated status checks every one minute.
➢ This is done on every running instance to identify any h/w of s/w issue.
➢ Status check is built into the AWS EC2 instance.
➢ They cannot be configured, deleted or disable.
➢ EC2 services can send its metric data to AWS cloudwatch every 5 minutes (enable by
default)
➢ Enable detailed monitoring is chargeable and sends metric in every 1 minute.

➢ You are not charged for EC2 instances if they are stopped however attached EBS
➢ You area not charged for EC2 instances if they are stopped however attached EBS
volumes incur charges.

When you stop an EBS Backed EC2 instance:

➢ Instances perform a shutdown.


➢ State changes from running to stopping.

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