April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
AWS provides different types of EC2 instances depending on the resources they consume. The naming convention for instance types is based on the number of CPU cores, memory size, disk size, and so on. Depending on these parameters, instances can be named nano, micro, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge, and so on.
These instance types are classified into five categories: General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Storage Optimized, and Accelerated Computing.
The General Purpose category of instance is suitable for hosting websites, creating development environments or build servers, source code repositories, and so on.
The Compute Optimized category of instances can be used for CPU intensive tasks and applications ...