Chapter 7: Explore instance types, sizes, and pricing
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Understanding AWS EC2 instance families and their optimal use cases.
Balanced compute, memory, and networking resources. Best for diverse workloads.
Web servers, small databases, development environments, microservices, code repositories
High-performance processors optimized for compute-intensive workloads.
Batch processing, media transcoding, high-performance web servers, scientific modeling, dedicated gaming servers, machine learning inference
Designed for memory-intensive applications with large datasets in RAM.
In-memory databases (Redis, Memcached), real-time big data analytics, high-performance databases, SAP applications
GPU and FPGA instances for graphics and parallel processing workloads.
Machine learning training, deep learning, 3D visualization, video transcoding, computational fluid dynamics, seismic analysis
High sequential read/write access to large datasets on local storage.
NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB), data warehousing, distributed file systems, Hadoop/Spark clusters, log processing