AWS

Explain each of the following instance types:

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Compute Optimized:

  • Used for compute-intensive tasks
  • It has high performance processors
  • Use cases vary: gaming serves, machine learning, batch processing, etc.

Memory Optimized:

  • Used for processing large data sets in memory
  • Other use cases: high performance, databases, distributed cache stores

Storage Optimized:

  • Used for storage intensive tasks - high read and write access to large data sets
  • Use cases: databases, OLTP system, distributing file systems