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Amazon resources supported by Compute Optimizer

This chapter outlines the Amazon resources that Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for. It also provides you with the specific resource types supported by Compute Optimizer.

Amazon Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for the following Amazon resources:

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances

    Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for many Amazon EC2 instance types. For more information about the specific instance types that Compute Optimizer supports, see Supported Amazon EC2 instance types.

  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups

    Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups. For more information, see Supported Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups.

  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes

    Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for various EBS volume types. For more information about the specific EBS volume types that Compute Optimizer supports, see Supported Amazon EBS volume types.

  • Amazon Lambda functions

    Compute Optimizer generates memory size recommendations for Lambda functions that meet specific requirements. For more information, see Lambda function requirements.

  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services on Amazon Fargate

    Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for Amazon ECS services on Fargate that meet specific requirements. For more information, see Requirements for Amazon ECS services on Fargate.

  • Commercial software licenses

    Compute Optimizer generates license recommendations for Microsoft SQL Servers on Amazon EC2 that meet specific requirements. For more information, see Commercial software license requirements.

Note

In order to generate recommendations for each resource, the resources must meet Compute Optimizer's metric and resource-specific requirements. For a list of the requiremtents for each resource, see Resource requirements.

Supported Amazon EC2 instance types

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for the instance types listed in this section. The following table lists the EC2 instance types that are supported by Compute Optimizer.

Instance series Instance family

C – Compute optimized

C1 | C3 | C4 | C5 | C5a | C5ad | C5d | C5n | C6a | C6g | C6gd | C6gn | C6i | C6in | C6id | C7a | C7g | C7gd | C7gn | C7i | C7i-flex | C8g

D – Dense storage

D2 | D3 | D3en

G – Graphics intensive

G4dn | G5g | G5 | G6 | Gr6 | G6e

Hpc – High performance computing

H1 | Hpc6a | Hpc6id | Hpc7a | Hpc7g

I – Storage optimized

I2 | I3 | I3en | I4g | I4i | I7ie | I8g | Im4gn | Is4gen

M – General purpose

M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 | M5a | M5ad | M5d | M5dn | M5n | M5zn | M6a | M6g | M6gd | M6i | M6id | M6idn | M6in | M7a | M7g | M7gd | M7i | M7i-flex | M8g

P – GPU accelerated

P3 | P4 | P4d | P4de | P5 | P5e | P5en

R – Memory optimized

R3 | R4 | R5 | R5a | R5ad | R5b | R5d | R5dn | R5n | R6a | R6g | R6gd | R6i | R6id | R6idn | R6in | R7a | R7g | R7gd | R7i | R7iz | R8g

T – Burstable performance

T1 | T2 | T3 | T3a | T4g

U – High memory

U-3tb1 | U-6tb1 | U-9tb1 | U-12tb1 | U-18tb1 | U-24tb1 | U7i-6tb | U7i-8tb | U7i-12tb | U7in-16tb | U7in-24tb | U7in-32tb

X – Memory intensive

X1 | X1e | X2gd | X2idn | X2iedn | X2iezn | X8g

Z – High memory

z1d
Note

  • If an EC2 instance isn't listed, then it isn't supported by Compute Optimizer.

  • Compute Optimizer doesn't generate EC2 rightsizing recommendations for Spot Instances.

Supported Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups

Compute Optimizer generates rightsizing and idle recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups. This section outlines what Compute Optimizer supports for both types of recommendations.

Rightsizing recommendations

Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing recommendations for the EC2 Auto Scaling groups that have the following:

  • Single EC2 instance types

  • Mixed EC2 instance types

  • One or multiple scaling policies based on CPU utilization:

    • Target tracking

    • Predictive scaling

    • Simple scaling

    • Step scaling

  • Scheduled scaling policies

  • No scaling policy

Note

Compute Optimizer doesn't support EC2 Auto Scaling groups that have the following:

  • Spot Instances

  • G and P instance families

  • ECS or EKS workloads

  • Mixed instance types containing both AMD and Intel instances

  • Mixed instance types that use instance weights

  • Mixed instance types containing both x86 and Graviton instances

  • Mixed instance types containing instances on different platforms, such as Windows, SQL Server, and Linux

Idle recommendations

Compute Optimizer supports idle recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups that use most of the Supported Amazon EC2 instance types, including those with EC2 Spot Instances. However, Compute Optimizer doesn't support idle recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups that use G and P instance families.

Supported Amazon EBS volume types

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for the following EBS volume types that are attached to an instance:

  • HDD st1 and sc1

  • General Purpose SSD gp2 and gp3

  • Provisioned IOPS SSD io1, io2, and io2 Block Express

Compute Optimizer also generates recommendations to move your data out from previous generation HDD Magnetic volumes. For more information, see Amazon EBS previous generation volumes.

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