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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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