1. Instance Type 개요

• You can use different types of EC2 intances that are optimised for different use cases
• AWS has the following naming convention: eg. m5.2xlarge
  • m : instance class
  • 5: generation
  • 2xlarge : size within the instance class

2. Instance Type 종류

2-1) General Purpose

• Great for a diversity of workloads such as web servers or code repositories
• Balance between:
  • Compute
  • Memory
  • Networking

2-2) Compute Optimized

• Great for compute-intensive task that require high performance processors:
  • Batch processing workloads
  • Media transcoding
  • High performance web servers
  • High performance computing (HPC)
  • Scientific modeling & machine learning
  • Dedicated gaming servers

2-3) Memory Optimized

• Fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory
• Use cases:
  • High performance, realtional/non-relational databases
  • Distributed web scale cache stores
  • In-memory databases optimized for BI (business intelligence)
  • Applications performing real-time processing of big unstructured data
• start with “r” ox “x1”