AWS re:Post Live - Compute Capacity Planning Best Practices on AWS

Note: This episode aired on April 8th. You can watch the recording on demand by clicking the image at the bottom of this article.

Welcome to our Community Article for the upcoming AWS re:Post Live show scheduled for Monday, April 8th at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST! On this episode, join Sr. Technical Account Manager Jay Busch and ESL Technical Account Manager Miguel Otero Guerra as they discuss Compute Capacity and some of the best practices you can employ to save time, cut costs, and get the most out of your AWS journey. If you have any questions about capacity planning please add it in the comment section below for our speakers to address live on twitch.tv/aws during the show. If your question is selected you will be awarded 5 re:Post points! If another user has already asked a question that you would also like to see discussed, give it an upvote and we'll address each question based on interest.

While Amazon EC2 capacity in AWS Regions is seemingly infinite, capacity on Outposts is finite. You are responsible for planning and managing the compute capacity of your Outposts deployments. You should order sufficient compute capacity to support an N+M availability model, where N is the required number of servers and M is the number of spare servers provisioned to accommodate server failures. N+1 and N+2 are the most common availability levels.