2-AWS Types of EC2 Instances

M-Series:-(M4, M5, M5a, M5ad, M5d)

T-Series:-(T2,T3,T3a)

A1–Instances:- Al-instances are ideally suited for Scale-Out Workloads that are supported by the Arm Ecosystem. These instances are well-suited for the following Application Webserver.
Containerized micro Services.
Caching fleets.
Distributed data Stores.
An application that requires Arm Instruction Set.

IM4, M5, M5a, M5ad and M50.
M4 Instance: – The New My instances feature a Custom Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 Haswell processor Optimized Specifically for EC2

VCPU 2 to 40 (Max.).
RAM 8GB to 160 GB (Max.).
Instance Storage  EBS Only.

M5, M5a, M5ad, and M5d Instances: These instances provide an ideal Cloud infra, offering a Balance of Compute, memory, and Networking Resources for a Broad Range of applications Used in – Gaming Servers, Web Server Small and Medium databases

VCPU 2 to 96 (max.).
RAM – 8 to 384 (Max.).
Storage EBS & NVMe, SSD.

T2, T3 and T3a Instances

1 These instances provide a baseline level of CPU Performance with the ability to burst to a higher level When Required by Your Workload!

→ An Unlimited Instances Can Sustain high CPU Performance for any period of time Whenever Required

Used for :

1) Website and Web App.
2) Code Repositories.
3) Development, build test.
4) Microservices

VCPU 2 to 8 (max.).
RAM – 0.5 to 32 (Max.)

Three types are Available C4, C5, C5n (C3 Previous Instance )

Compute Optimized Instances are Ideal for Compute-bound application’s that benefit from high-performance processors.     

Three types are Available C4, C5, C5n (C3 Previous Instance )

C4-instances:- C4 instances are optimized for Compute intensive Workloads and deliver Very Cost effective high performance at a low price per Compute Ratio.

VCPU 2 to 136
RAM – 3.75 to Go GB
Storage – EBS Only
Network BW – 10 Gbps

Use Cases –Web Server, Batch Processing, MMO Gaming, Video Encoding

C5 instances:- C5 is Optimized for compute-intensive Workloads and delivers Cost-effective high performance at

a low price per Compute Ratio.
Powered by AWS Nitro System.

VCPU 2 to 72
RAM + 4 to 192 GB
Network B.W → Up to 25 Gbps
Instance Storage – EBS Only & NVMe SSD.

High-performance Web Server, Gaming, and Video Encoding.

Note:-
C5 supports a max of 25 EBS volume.
C5 uses an Elastic Network Adapter.
C5 uses a new EC2 Hypervisor.

Memory Optimized

R Series.
X-Series.
Z-Series.

Memory Optimized instances are designed to deliver fast performance for Workloads that process large data sets in Memory

More RAM

→ High Performance, Relational (MySQL), and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.

→ Distributed Web Scale Cache Stores that provide in-memory caching of key-value type data

→ Used in Financial Services, Hadoop.

VCPU – 2 t. 96
RAM = 1648 768GB
Instance Storage – EBS Only & Nume SSD

X1, Xle Instances

→ Well suited for High-Performance databases and Memory intensive enterprise applications, Relational Database Workload, SAP HANA.

→ Electronic Design Automation

VCPU – 4 to 128.
RAM – 122 to 3904 GB.
Instance Storage – SSD.

Zld Instance

→ High-Frequency Zid delivers a sustained all Core frequency of up to 4.0 GHz, the fastest of any cloud instances

→ AWS Nitro System, Xeon Processor, up to 1.8T8 of instances Storage

VCPU – 2 to 48

RAM → 16 to 384 GB

Storage – NVM SSD

use Cases:- Electronic Design Automation and Certain databases Workloads with high per-Core Licensing Cost

Accelerated Computing

P Series.
G Series.
F Series

F1 Instance

→ F1 Instances offer Customizable Hardware acceleration with field Programmable Gate arrays (FPGA).

→ Each FPGA Contains 2.5 million Logic Elements and  6800 DSP engines.

→ Designed to accelerate Computationally intensive algorithms, such as data flow or highly parallel Operations.

→ F1 provider Local NVM SSD Storage.

VCPU – 8 to 64.
FPGA – 1 to 8.
RAM – 122 to 476 GB.
Storage- NUMe SSD

Used in = Genomics Research, Financial Analytics, Real-time Video Processing & Big data Search

P2 & P3 Instances

It Uses NVIDIA Tesla GPUs.
→ Provide High Bandwidth Networking.
→ Up to 32 GB of memory Per GPU which makes them Ideal for deep Learning & Computational Fluid Dynamics.

P2 Instance
VCPU + 4 to 64.
GPU 1 to 16.
RAM + 61-768GB.
GPU RAM – 12-192GB.
Network BW – 25 Gbps
Storage – SSD & EBS.

P3 Instance

VCPU – 8 to 96.
GPU – 1 to 8.
RAM 61-73298.
Storage SSD & EBS.

Used in Machine Learning, Databases Seismic Analysis, Genomics, Molecular Modeling, AI, and Deep Learning.

Note:- p3 Support CUDA9 & Open GL Apis.

P2 Supports CUDA8  and Open CL 12 G2 & G3 Instances

Optimized for Graphics Intensive application

→ Well suited for apps like 3D Visualisation

→ G3 Instances use NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPU and provide a Cost Effective, high-performance platform for Graphics applications

VCPU – 4 to 64.
GPU – 1 to 4.
RAM – 30.5 to 488GB.
GPU Memory 8 to 32 GB.
Network Performance – 25 Gbps

Used in – Video Creation Services, 3D Visualisation, and Streaming Graphics-intensive applications.

I Series.
D Series.
H Series.

Storage Optimized instances are designed for Workloads  that Require’ high, sequential Read and write access to very large data sets on local Storage

They are Optimized to deliver tens of thousands of Low Latency, Random I/O Operations per second CIOPS) to application

Well suited for the following 

→ Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehouse.
→ Map Reduce and Hadoop distributed Computing.
→ Log or data Processing app

VCPU — + 4 to 36.
RAM — 30.5 to 244 GB.
storage — SSD.

H1 Instances

This family features up to 16 TB of HDD Based local storage, high disk throughput, and a balance of computing & Memory.

→ Well suited for App Requiring Sequential access to large amounts of data on direct-attached instance storage.

→ Application that requires high throughput access to large quantities of data

vCPU – 8 to 64.
RAM – 32 to 256GB.
Storage – HDD.

I3 and I3en Instances 

Well suited for=>

→ High-frequency online transaction process-ing System COLTP).

→ Relational Databases.
→ No SQL Databases.
→ Distributed File System.

→ Data Warehousing application.

VCPU 2 to 96.
RAM – 16 to 768 GB.
Local Storage – NVMe SSD.
Networking Performance – 25 Gbps to l00 Gbps.

Sequential Throughout Read – 16 GB/s Write – 6.4GB/S (I3), 8GB/S (I3en).

U Series 

→ High Memory Instances are bare metal’ Instances and do not Run on a Hypervisor

→ Only available under Dedicate Host Purchasing Category (for 3 yr. Term)

→ OS directly on Hardware

High Memory Instances are purchased and built to run large-in-memory databases, including production developments of SAP HANA in the cloud.

Features :

Latest Generation Intel Xeon Pentium 8176M Processor

# 6, 9, 12 TB of instance Memory, the largest of any of the EC2 Instance

Powered by the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated Hardware & Lightweight Hypervisor

Bare Metal Performance with direct access to host Hardware.

EBS Optimized by default at no additional Cost.

model :- U-6tb 1 metal, U-9th metal & U-12tb1 metal

Network Performance – 25 Gbps.
Dedicated EBS Bandwidth – 14 Gbps.
Each Instance offers 448 logical Processors.

→ Operating System runs directly on Hardware

→ Suitable for Licensing Restricted tier-1 Business Critical Applications.

eg:- i3 metal, 15-metal, r5-metal, z1d-metal, u-6ti metal