EC2 Placement Groups
Explore the concepts of EC2 placement groups in AWS to understand how instance placement strategies affect performance and availability. Learn about cluster, spread, and partition placement groups and their use cases to optimize your AWS architecture.
Placement groups
Placement groups are used to control our instance placement strategy. We can’t interact with AWS hardware directly. Placement groups allow us to control how our instances are placed on the underlying hardware. For a better understanding, let’s look at the placement strategies.
Cluster placement groups
Instances are grouped together into a low-latency setup in a single AZ. This allows for better interplacement communication in architectures where quick internode ...