1. What is AWS Batch and what are its components?
Answer: AWS Batch is a fully managed service that enables you to run batch computing workloads on the AWS Cloud. Its components include Jobs, Job Definitions, Job Queues, and Compute Environments.
2. How do I set up AWS Batch?
Answer: To set up AWS Batch, you need to sign up for an AWS account, create an administrative user, create IAM roles for your compute environments and container instances, create a key pair, create a VPC, create a security group, and install the AWS CLI.
3. What are the different types of job definitions that I can create in AWS Batch?
Answer: You can create single-node job definitions on Amazon EC2 resources, AWS Fargate resources, and Amazon EKS resources. You can also create multi-node parallel job definitions on Amazon EC2 resources.
4. How do I create a compute environment in AWS Batch?
Answer: To create a compute environment, you need to specify the type of environment, the state of the environment, the compute resources, and the Amazon EKS configuration (if applicable). You can create managed compute environments using AWS Fargate resources, EC2 resources, or EKS resources, or unmanaged compute environments using EC2 resources.
5. How do I monitor and troubleshoot AWS Batch jobs?
Answer: You can monitor and troubleshoot AWS Batch jobs using job logs, CloudWatch Container Insights, CloudWatch Logs, and CloudTrail. You can also search and filter AWS Batch jobs and view job states, job environment variables, automated job retries, job dependencies, job timeouts, and GPU jobs.