Instance Types Flashcards
1
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General Purpose
A
For diversity of workloads, such as web servers or code repositories
Balance between compute, memory and networking
2
Q
Compute Optimised
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For compute intensive tasks, e.g.
- high performance computing (HPC)
- scientific modelling and machine learning
- dedicated gaming servers
- high performance web servers
- media transcoding
- batch processing workloads
3
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Memory Optimised
A
Fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory
- high performance relational and non-relational databases (in memory dbs)
- distributed web scale cache stores (elasticache)
- in-memory databases optimised for business intelligence (BI)
- Applications performing real-time processing of big unstructured data
4
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Storage Optimised
A
Storage-intensive tasks that require high sequential read and write access to large data sets on local storage
- High frequency online transaction processing (OLTP) systems
- Relational & NoSQL databases
- Cache for in memory databases (e.g. Redis)
- Data warehousing applications
- Distributed file systems