Compute Options — Beyond EC2

AWS offers multiple compute options for different use cases.

AWS Lambda:

Serverless compute — run code without managing servers

Event-driven; auto-scales; pay per invocation and duration

Supports Python, Node.js, Java, C#, Go, Ruby

Max 15 minutes per execution

Free tier: 1 million requests/month

Elastic Beanstalk:

PaaS — deploy web applications without managing infrastructure

Upload code; Beanstalk handles provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling

Still have access to underlying resources

Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service):

Run Docker containers; AWS manages the orchestration

Launch type: EC2 (you manage servers) or Fargate (serverless containers)

Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service):

Managed Kubernetes; AWS handles control plane

For complex containerized applications already using Kubernetes

AWS Fargate:

Serverless containers; no EC2 instances to manage

Works with ECS and EKS

Pay for CPU and memory allocated to containers

AWS Batch: Fully managed batch processing at any scale.

Reference:

Wikipedia: AWS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services