EC2 Instances Types

In this post we will be seeing EC2 Instances in details, we will be covering Amazon EC2 Instance Types.

So let’s get started,

In this post i’ll be briefing high level on EC2 instance types this blog is for someone who wants to understand what are EC2 Instances types on a high level or someone who wants to get started, this blog will also help you to decide the type of instance you wish to purchase for your need.

There are 6 EC2 instance types ,

General Purpose
Compute Optimized
Memory Optimized
Storage Optimized
Accelerate Computing/GPU
High Memory
Let’s see each ec2 instance types in brief

General Purpose: General purpose instances provide a balance of compute, memory and networking resources, and can be used for a variety of diverse workloads.

3 series are available in General Purpose

A series comprising of medium, large and metal instances.
M series comprising of large and metal instances.
T series comprising of Nano, small, medium and large instances
Compute Optimized: These are ideal for compute bound applications that gets benefited from high performance processors. Instances belonging to this family are suited for batch processing workloads, media transcoding, high performance web servers, high performance computing (HPC), scientific modeling, dedicated gaming servers and ad server engines, machine learning inference and other compute intensive applications.

1 series are available in Compute Optimized

C series comprising of large and metal instances.
Storage Optimized : Storage optimized instances are designed for workloads that require high, sequential read and write access to very large data sets on local storage.

3 series are available in this,

I series comprising of large and metal instances.
D series comprising of large instances.
H series comprising of large instances.

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EC2 Instances Types