[PCS-003] Launch templates, instance profiles, security groups, and AMIs in AWS PCS

Brendan Bouffler
Date : August 28, 2024
Categories : AI/ML ,AWS Batch ,AWS ParallelCluster ,Amazon NICE DCV ,Elastic Fabric Adapter ,Life Sciences
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AWS Parallel Computing Service makes use of a lot of AWS technologies to enable you to abstract and tease out the layers of your complex software stacks and the environments they run in.

Matt shows us how to extract the maximum benefits from using Launch templates, instance profiles, security groups , and AMIs to your advantage.

Introducing AWS Parallel Computing Service, which is for customers who run high performance computing (HPC) workloads and build scientific and engineering models so they can accelerate their R&D and drive innovation.

If you have ideas for technical topics you’d like to see us cover in a future show, let us know by emailing us at ask-hpc@amazon.com.

Chapters

00:00 - Start 01:18 - Foundational concepts 01:38 - IAM Instance Profile 02:14 - Security Groups 02:43 - Launch Templates 03:16 - Example use cases 04:37 - Create a security group 05:20 - Create a launch template 06:39 - Create our node group 08:26 - Enabling port 5800 for an existing node group 09:55 - Updating a node group 10:48 - A more complex example