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A set of descriptive parameters used to create new EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling activity.
A template that an Auto Scaling group uses to launch new EC2 instances. The launch configuration contains information such as the Amazon Machine Image ID, the instance type, key pairs, security groups, and block device mappings, among other configuration settings.
- Browse Related Terms: bundling, explicit launch permission, Image, Instance, launch configuration, launch permission, master node, Node, paid AMI, public AMI, shared AMISHA, supported AMI, Virtual Machine Import/Export
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An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) attribute that allows users to launch an AMI.
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AMI attribute allowing users to launch an AMI
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The lifecycle state of the EC2 instance contained in an AutoScalingGroup. EC2 instances progress through several states over their lifespan; these include Pending, InService, Terminating and Terminated.
- Browse Related Terms: administrative suspension, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Auto-Scaling, epoch, health check, instance store, Lifecycle, Metadata, provisioned IOPS, Reserved Instance, scaling activity, Workload
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A load balancer is a combination of a DNS name and a set of ports, which together provide a destination for all requests intended for your application. A load balancer can distribute traffic to multiple application instances across every Availability Zone within a region. Load balancers can span multiple Availability Zones within an Amazon EC2 region, but they cannot span multiple regions.
- Browse Related Terms: Availability Zone, cluster compute instance, Dedicated Instance, Elastic Load Balancing, exponential backoff, Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) virtualization, load balancer, Multi-AZ deployment, Regions - US East, US West, GovCloud, Single-AZ DB Instance, sticky session, virtual private cloud (VPC)
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A case-sensitive unique string within an AWS CloudFormation template that identifies a resource, mapping, parameter, or output. In an AWS CloudFormation template, each parameter, resource, property, mapping, and output must be declared with a unique logical name. You use the logical name when dereferencing these items using the Ref function.
- Browse Related Terms: format version, intrinsic function, logical name, mapping, NoEcho, property rule, pseudo parameter, template format version, template validation, Validation
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