- AWS cloud provides lot of instance types based on different use cases.
- Instance types comprise varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity.
Below are the details of Smallest and Largest Instance types with price details(Values are based on US East (N. Virginia)) ↴↴↴
Smallest Instance Type ➟ t2.nano
- The Smallest and cheapest Amazon EC2 Instance type is t2.nano.
- The t2.nano is recommended for low-traffic website hosting, micro services and developer environments which have low memory needs and don’t need consistently high levels of CPU on average, but benefit significantly from having full access to very fast CPUs when they need them.
| Instance Type |
vCPU |
Mem(GiB) |
Pricing*
|
Reserved Instance(1 Year Upfront)*
|
|
Linux
|
Windows
|
Partial
|
Full
|
| t2.nano |
1 |
0.5 |
$0.0059/hr |
$0.0082/hr |
$0.004/hr |
$0.004 |
* indicates not appropriate values
Largest Instance Type ➟ x1.32xlarge
- It is the Largest instance type and Lowest price per GiB of RAM
- It is designed for running large-scale, in-memory applications and in-memory databases like SAP HANA, big data processing engines like Apache Spark or Presto, and high performance computing (HPC) applications.
| Instance Type |
vCPU |
Mem(GiB) |
Pricing*
|
Reserved Instance(1 Year Upfront)*
|
|
Linux
|
Windows
|
Partial
|
Full
|
| x1.32xlarge |
128 |
1952(2TB) |
$13.338/hr |
$19.226/hr |
$7.828 |
$7.671 |
* indicates not appropriate values
