Placement Groups
Explore the concept of EC2 placement groups and their types such as cluster, partition, and spread placement groups. Understand how to deploy instances for improved low-latency communication, availability, and fault tolerance. This lesson helps you choose the right placement strategy to meet specific application performance and resilience needs on AWS.
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When several EC2 instances are launched, EC2 offers that instances are distributed 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.
In this lesson, we’ll learn about placement groups and their different types.
A placement group allows control of the deployment of interdependent instances in a certain way 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 ...