1- find ami id using aws cli ( use bash, use aws credentials and then use the long command )
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| vSRX on AWS | |
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| 18.4 | ami-0cf5905679d7747fd ( USOregon / US-WEST-2 / Oregon ) ami-0053111d7a7e064f2 ( London / EU-west-2 ) |
| 15.1 | ami-f4958c90 ( London / EU-west-2 ) |
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Market Place for AMI: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/
paravirtual (PV) or hardware virtual machine (HVM).
The main differences between PV and HVM AMIs are the way in which they boot and whether they can take advantage of special hardware extensions (CPU, network, and storage) for better performance.
For the best performance: current generation instance types and HVM AMIs
EBS: Elastic Block Store provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances.
solid-state drives (SSDs) Vs HDD
Amazon EC2 Instance Types
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