035 ec2 instance type

Overview

Convention:

m5.2xlarge

• m: instance class
• 5: generation
• 2xlarge: etc

Types

General Purpose

General:

• Web server or code repo

Balance between

• Compute
• Memory
• Networking

Compute Optimized

Great for compute-intensive tasks

• Batch processing workloads
• Media transcoding
• High performance web servers
• High performance computing (HPC)
• Scientific modeling & Machine learning
• Gaming severs

Memory Optimized

Fast performance

• Databases
• Distributed web scale cache store
• In-memory DBs for BI (business intelligence)
• Real-time processing applications of big unstructured data

Storage Optimized

High, sequential r/w to large data sets

• High frequency online transaction processing (OLTP) system
• DBs
• Cache for in-memory DBs
• Data warehousing apps
• Distributed file system

Example

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