Very Busy Day so here’s intro to EC2 Types

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Well I got through my checkride semi-successfully yesterday thanks for all of the well wishes. Today is election day so please get out to vote and execute your civic rights.

As for the topic of the blog, here is a high level intro to EC2 instance types. We will get deeper in the next post. EC2 is split into instance families as seen here.

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Each family has it’s unique characteristics and as such its own use cases. Let’s go through some of these. The leading letter determines the family class, the following number indicates the generation of the instance, then the last part denotes the size of the instance. For example:

M4.XLarge = (M Family)(4th Generation) (Extra Large meaning 4 vCPU and 16 GB of mem)

The M class is a multi-purpose instance type, used for any number of applications where a balanced memory to cpu approach is applicable.

The C class is compute optimized and allows you to perform advanced network configuration and clustering of compute resources.

The T class is the default class and is highly burstable and the default instance type.

The D and I class are intended for database instances that users want to manage instead of using database services managed by AWS. The D class is dense storage while the I class is configured for large in memory databases like SAP HANA.

The G and P classes are for graphic intensive workloads. The G class has high performance NVIDIA processors for multimedia and high-end graphics, and the P class has GPU Direct support for general graphics workloads.

The R class is a memory optimized class that is meant for high memory hog apps think things like SharePoint.

For further comparison check out this chart, and the FAQ.

Instance Types Matrix

Instance Type vCPU Memory (GiB)  Storage (GB) Networking Performance Physical Processor Clock Speed (GHz) Intel AVX† Intel AVX2† Intel Turbo EBS OPT
 Enhanced Networking†
t2.nano 1 0.5 EBS Only Low Intel Xeon family up to 3.3 Yes – Yes – –
t2.micro 1 1 EBS Only Low to Moderate Intel Xeon family Up to 3.3 Yes – Yes – –
t2.small 1 2 EBS Only Low to Moderate Intel Xeon family Up to 3.3 Yes – Yes – –
t2.medium 2 4 EBS Only Low to Moderate Intel Xeon family Up to 3.3 Yes – Yes – –
t2.large 2 8 EBS Only Low to Moderate Intel Xeon family Up to 3.0 Yes – Yes – –
m4.large 2 8 EBS Only Moderate Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3** 2.4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
m4.xlarge 4 16 EBS Only High Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3** 2.4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
m4.2xlarge 8 32 EBS Only High Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3** 2.4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
m4.4xlarge 16 64 EBS Only High Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3** 2.4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
m4.10xlarge 40 160 EBS Only 10 Gigabit Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 2.4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
m4.16xlarge 64 256 EBS Only 20 Gigabit Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 2.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
m3.medium 1 3.75 1 x 4 SSD Moderate Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2* 2.5 Yes – Yes – –
m3.large 2 7.5 1 x 32 SSD Moderate Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2* 2.5 Yes – Yes – –
m3.xlarge 4 15 2 x 40 SSD High Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2* 2.5 Yes – Yes Yes –
m3.2xlarge 8 30 2 x 80 SSD High Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2* 2.5 Yes – Yes Yes –
c4.large 2 3.75 EBS Only Moderate Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 2.9 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
c4.xlarge 4 7.5 EBS Only High Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 2.9 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
c4.2xlarge 8 15 EBS Only High Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 2.9 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
c4.4xlarge 16 30 EBS Only High Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 2.9 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
c4.8xlarge 36 60 EBS Only 10 Gigabit Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 2.9 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
c3.large 2 3.75 2 x 16 SSD Moderate Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 2.8 Yes – Yes – Yes
c3.xlarge 4 7.5 2 x 40 SSD Moderate Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 2.8 Yes – Yes Yes Yes
c3.2xlarge 8 15 2 x 80 SSD High Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 2.8 Yes – Yes Yes Yes
c3.4xlarge 16 30 2 x 160 SSD High Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 2.8 Yes – Yes Yes Yes
c3.8xlarge 32 60 2 x 320 SSD 10 Gigabit Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 2.8 Yes – Yes – Yes
p2.xlarge 4 61 EBS Only High Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 2.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
p2.8xlarge 32 488 EBS Only 10 Gigabit Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 2.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
p2.16xlarge 64 732 EBS Only 20 Gigabit Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 2.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
g2.2xlarge 8 15 1 x 60 SSD High Intel Xeon  E5-2670 2.6 Yes – Yes Yes –
g2.8xlarge 32 60 2 x 120 SSD 10 Gigabit Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 Yes – Yes  – –
x1.16large 64 976 1 x 1,920 SSD 10 Gigabit Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 2.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
x1.32xlarge 128 1,952 2 x 1,920 SSD 20 Gigabit Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 2.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
r3.large 2 15.25 1 x 32 SSD Moderate Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 2.5 Yes – Yes – Yes
r3.xlarge 4 30.5 1 x 80 SSD Moderate Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 2.5 Yes – Yes Yes Yes
r3.2xlarge 8 61 1 x 160 SSD High Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 2.5 Yes – Yes Yes Yes
r3.4xlarge 16 122 1 x 320 SSD High Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 2.5 Yes – Yes Yes Yes
r3.8xlarge 32 244 2 x 320 SSD 10 Gigabit Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 2.5 Yes – Yes – Yes
i2.xlarge 4 30.5 1 x 800 SSD Moderate Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 2.5 Yes – Yes Yes Yes
i2.2xlarge 8 61 2 x 800 SSD High Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 2.5 Yes – Yes Yes Yes
i2.4xlarge 16 122 4 x 800 SSD High Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 2.5 Yes – Yes Yes Yes
i2.8xlarge 32 244 8 x 800 SSD 10 Gigabit Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 2.5 Yes – Yes – Yes
d2.xlarge 4 30.5 3 x 2000 Moderate Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 2.4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
d2.2xlarge 8 61 6 x 2000 High Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 2.4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
d2.4xlarge 16 122 12 x 2000 High Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 2.4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
d2.8xlarge 36 244 24 x 2000 10 Gigabit Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 2.4 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes