Thursday, March 23, 2023

Amazon EC2 Instance Types

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offers a wide range of instance types to support various workloads and use cases.

Each instance type is designed to provide a specific combination of CPU, memory, storage, and network performance.

The following are some of the instance types offered by AWS:

  1. General Purpose: These instance types are ideal for small to medium-sized databases, web servers, and development environments. Examples include the T4g, T3, T2, M6g, M5, M4, A1, and A2 instance families.

  2. Compute-Optimized: These instance types are designed for compute-intensive workloads that require high CPU performance. Examples include the C6g, C5, C4, and CC2 instance families.

  3. Memory-Optimized: These instance types are ideal for workloads that require high memory capacity, such as in-memory databases and big data analytics. Examples include the R6g, R5, R4, X1e, X1, and z1d instance families.

  4. Storage-Optimized: These instance types are designed for workloads that require high storage capacity and high I/O performance, such as NoSQL databases, data warehousing, and log processing. Examples include the I3, D2, H1, and G3 instance families.

  5. GPU-Instances: These instance types are designed for workloads that require high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) for deep learning, scientific simulations, and video encoding. Examples include the P4, P3, G4, G3, and Inf1 instance families.

  6. FPGA-Instances: These instance types are designed for workloads that require customizable hardware acceleration for specialized workloads. Examples include the F1 instance family.

  7. Arm-based Instances: These instance types are based on Arm processors and are optimized for workloads that require high performance at a lower cost. Examples include the Graviton2-based instances.

Each instance type has its own unique characteristics and pricing model, so it is important to choose the instance type that best meets your workload requirements and budget.

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