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AWS Instance types

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AWS instance types.md

• General Purpose

  • M1, M3 (balanced CPU, Memory, Network resources)
    • Small to mid size databases or data processing tasks

• Compute Optmized

  • C1, CC2 (higher computer power with increased CPUs compared to Memory)
    • High traffic websites, on demand services, web servers, video encoding

• Memory Optimized

  • M2, CR1 (memory intensive applications)
    • High perf databases, distributed cache

• Storage Optimized

  • HI1, HS1 (direct-attached storage, disk I/O & storage capacity requirements)
    • HI1 for NoSQL databases like MongoDB
    • HS1 for data warehouses like Hadoop clusters

• Micro Instances

  • Micro, T1 (small CPU)
    • low throughput applications, low-traffic websites

• GPU Instances

  • CG1 (parallel performance, and high CPU)
    • Very high computational algorithms and graphics rendering