EC2 vs. VMware vSphere
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easy to equals a VM right well I think it's a little bit more complicated than that it's what you're looking to do if I'm looking to run sap uh monolithic application that's always on ec2 is not equal to a VM yes I may have the uh flat same capabilities but cost wise ec2 starts to look really expensive when it's always on and I think this is where ec2 not equal to a VM starts to take in a form or shape in a larger ecosystem such as
AWS when we think about things such as EBS I am vpcs in this relationship to ec2 these are things that's incredibly hard to recreate on premises these are things that become greater than on-premises capabilities when we're talking about the cloud platform ec2 has something that on-premises VMS don't have and that's identity within the AWS infrastructure as a developer I can say ec2 instance has rights to something or something has rights to a ec2 instance one of my favorite examples which is Lambda I can say a
Lambda process or set a code has rights to an ec2 instance or ec2 instance has rights to a Lambda instance so ec2 instance from my identity management perspective can kick off a Lambda why is this important well let's look at serverless on-premises if I have serverless a container application or or something running in a container a piece of code how does that how do I say from a firewall or security Appliance perspective that a piece of code has access to my Oracle database or to a
VM this is the power of a cloud platform and especially AWS ec2 is not equal to a VM it is a different construct it just happens to be applied using virtualization technology you want to learn more follow us on the web AWS every day to get a different AWS product in your inbox
