AWS

What is the difference between Launch Configuration and Launch Template?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Launch configuration is a legacy form of Launch Template that must be recreated every time you would like to update the configuration.

In addition, launch template has the clear benefits of:

  • Provision both On-Demand and Spot instances
  • supporting multiple versions
  • support creating parameters subsets (used for reuse and inheritance)