Amazon EC2 Instance Types

The following are the types classified based on the basic specifications & configurations. Depending upon the requirement, we can choose the type of instance that will suit best for our use-case.

1) General Purpose

Equivalent distribution of computation power, memory, storage. network, etc...


2) Compute Optimized

High processing power with top end CPU power


3) Memory Optimized

Memory intensive tasks like high speed database query executions. These come with high RAMs.


4) Accelerated Computing

Graphics Processing, Data Pattern matching are use-cases. These offer high GPU.


5) Storage Optimized

Suitable for high workloads of data which requires high number of input/output operations per second (IOPS). e.g. Data Warehousing.

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