Types of EC2 Instances in AWS
Published: 2022-10-11 17:13:00

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# Amazon EC2 Instance

An Instance is a virtual server for running applications on Amazon's EC2. Set of tiny computers on a single machine with separate hardware and networking, all existing virtually.

# Types of EC2 Instances

## 1. General-Purpose Instances

- The computation, memory, and networking in General-Purpose Instances are balanced. 
- Scenarios, where you can use General Purpose Instances are gaming servers, small databases, personal projects, etc.
- If high performance CPUs are not required for your applications, you can go got General Purpose Instance.

## 2. Compute Optimized Instances

- The Compute Optimized Instances are best when there is need for high compute and high performance CPUs.
- These are best suited for high performance web servers, compute-intensive application servers, and dedicated gaming servers.
- These can also be used for batch processing workloads that require processing several transactions in a single group.
- Applications that require high server performance or that employ a machine learning model will benefit from Compute Optimized Instances.

## 3. Memory Optimized Instances

- Memory Optimized Instances are geared for workloads that need huge datasets to be processed in memory.
- Memory here defines RAM which allows us to do multiple tasks at a time.
- Memory is a temporary storage area.
- It loads from storage, holds the data, and process it before the computer can run it. 
- These are best when huge amounts of data need to be preloaded before running the app.

## 4. Accelerated Computing Instances

- These use hardware accelerators.
- Co-processors are used to execute specific operations more effectively than software running on CPUs.
- Graphics applications, game streaming, and application streaming are all good candidates for Accelerated Computing Instances.
- Data pattern matching can be done more efficiently with this instance type.

## 5. Storage Optimized Instances

- These are made for workloads that demand fast, sequential read and write access to huge datasets.
- Distributed file systems, data warehousing applications, and high frequency online transaction processing (OLTP) systems are examples of workloads that are suited for storage instances.
- These are built to provide applications with the lowest latency while accessing the data.

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