Amazon EC2 instance type naming conventions
Amazon EC2 provides a variety of instance types so you can choose the type that best meets your
requirements. Instance types are named based on their family, generation, processor family, additional
capabilities, and size. The first position of the instance type name indicates the instance family,
for example c
. The second position indicates the instance generation, for example
7
. The third position indicates the processor family, for example g
.
The remaining letters before the period indicate additional capabilities, such as instance store
volumes. After the period (.
) is the instance size, such as small
or
4xlarge
, or metal
for bare metal instances.
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