Boot EC2 Instances Faster
Reduce EC2 instance boot times
Need to spin up new EC2 instance more quickly? There might be a couple of tips in here that are useful.
Making EC2 boot time 8x faster
It’s possible to cut EC2 boot time from 40 seconds to 5 seconds by combining several optimizations like root volume streaming, instance warm pools, and instance resizing.
The overall idea of having cold instances that are already available rather than booting new ones is not new and an oft used trick in HPC but there are couple of tricks worth reading that were new to me.
