Learning AWS Batch

We will be learning AWS Batch with a detailed description of the computing environment and batch descriptions.

It is a set of batch management capabilities
Used to run hundreds of batch computing jobs on AWS
No need to install and manage batch software
handles job execution and compute resource management
execute multiple jobs in parallel
Batch Compute Resource is an EC2 instance
Batch Compute Environment is collection of compute resources to run batch jobs on
2 types of Compute Environments;
- Managed – provisioned and managed by AWS
- Unmanaged – managed by customers.
Batch has native integration with the EC2 Spot
It supports any job that can executed as a Docker container.
Jobs specify memory requirements and number of vCPUs.
Batch Application include
- Deep learning
- genomics analysis
- financial risk models
- Monte Carlo simulations
- animation rendering
- media transcoding
- image processing
- engineering simulations
Job Definition describes
- job to be executed
- parameters
- environmental variables
- compute requirements
Job Definition
- defined in advance of submitting a job
- can be shared with others
Batch uses Amazon ECS to execute containerized jobs

Aws batch Computing Capabilities

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