High Level Overview of AMI "instance types" when creating an AWS EC2 Instance

--- this is a "classification" of different kinds of hardware specifications

 

 

General Purpose

•  balance of compute, memory and networking resources, and can be used for a variety of diverse workloads. 

  >>>when you don't know your needs go for this.

• Example applications that might be hosted on such a computer include: web servers, code repositories

 

Compute Optimized:

 

• These types of AMI instances will have more CPU performance power than others,

• Example applications deployed here could include: media processing, long running batch jobs, game servers, high performance web servers, machine learning prediction applications

 

Memory Optimized

• fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory or that need heavy caching,

  Example Applications: high performanc databases - (MySql, MongoDB, etc)

 

GPU Optimized/Accerlated Computing

• Generally use GPU (graphical processing units) to perform certain kinds (matrix vector) calcuations

• Example Applications: inlcude Machine Learning Training, Certain kinds of Graphics Rendering (can be good for Gaming Engines)

 

 

Storage Optimized

• designed for workloads that require high, sequential read and write access to very large data sets on local storage (when S3 overhead of access too slow)

• Example Applications: Running Hadoop or distributed programs, Parallel processing/programming applications, Log or data processing applications