In EC2 you have the ability to deploy different instance types. You have the ability to deploy general purpose, this is useful if you need a good balance of CPU, memory, and networking requirements. You also have compute-optimized which is great for applications that require high processing power such as machine learning. You have memory-optimized which would be useful for analyzing and processing large datasets. Then you have storage-optimized which is great for applications that require high read\/write storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Here is an example of an instance type, that’s free within AWS. I will breakdown which each part means<\/p>\n\n\n\n
t2.micro<\/p>\n\n\n\n
t – Typically means general purpose, a good solution if you need balanced, RAM, CPU, Networking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2 – This is the version of the instance type, so this is version two of the general purpose instance type<\/p>\n\n\n\n
micro – This is the size of the instance, as you can see this instance is fairly small but it can go to large, xlarge, 2xlarge and even further<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Let’s look at one more<\/p>\n\n\n\n
c5.large<\/p>\n\n\n\n
c – This indicates a compute optimized instance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5 – This is version 5 of the compute-optimized instance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
large – This is the size within the instance class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The below two websites are very useful. When you are creating your EC2 instances it is a good idea to look into the instance types to find which one would work best for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/instance-types\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n