Placement Groups
Discover Amazon EC2 placement groups and how they help organize instances to improve performance and availability. Learn about cluster, partition, and spread strategies to optimize your application's latency, throughput, and fault tolerance within AWS environments.
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When several EC2 instances are launched, AWS offers to distribute the instances physically such that it can reduce the number of system crashes, thus offering high availability. However, this can be troublesome when instances require low-latency communication. Imagine a group of instances that require constant low-latency and high throughput communication to offer services to the users, and each instance is deployed on a different physical structure in an AZ. To cater to such issues, Amazon EC2 also offers placement groups.
A placement group allows control of the deployment of interdependent instances across the underlying infrastructure. Placement groups are purposely designed to meet our workload requirements.
Let’s take a deeper look into different placement strategies and their benefits.
Types of placement groups
EC2 offers different placement groups to cater to various application needs related to performance, ...