AWS Solutions Architect - Professional Prep - Instance Types

Back at my AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional prep reviewing the Whizlab practice exams.

I am still reviewing my first completed AWS practice exam. It had been so long since my last attempt that I forgot what Question i have reviewed up til. So I started over again. It is revision so it won’t hurt.

I took some time to look at the EC2 instance types. There are five categories and I want at least a passing familarity with each family should there be a questions about suitable instance types on the exam.

• General Purpose = T and M
  • Burstable
  • Unlimited or Predictable
  • Nitro - offload Netowrk and Storage to hardware
• Compute Optimized = C
  • HPC
  • Compute Optimised
  • Burstable
  • Cluster Networking
  • MMO Games
  • Video Encoding
• Memory Optimized Z, X and R
  • Up to 768GB Mem
  • Web scale Mem cache
  • High perf DB’s
  • In Memory DB.
• Accelerated Computing P, G and F
  • General Purpose GPU
  • Machine learning
  • HPC
  • Finance
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Speach Recognition
  • G = Graphics Optimized
  • F = FPGA’s
• Storage Optimized H. I and D
  • H 16TB high through put.
  • I High Random I/O
  • D for Disk 48TB

That a quick run through of the different types. I’ve not seen any questions yet on the different types but this can’t hurt to understand.

Written on October 3, 2018

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