Instance Types Flashcards

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General Purpose

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For diversity of workloads, such as web servers or code repositories

Balance between compute, memory and networking

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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
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Memory Optimised

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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
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Storage Optimised

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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
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