Instance Type
Instance Type Naming Convention
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
p
.The second position indicates the instance generation, for example
1
.The third position indicates the processor family, for example
a
.The remaining letters before the period indicate additional capabilities, such as instance store volumes.
After the period (
.
) is the instance size, such assmall
or4xlarge
.
Instance families
C – Compute optimized
D – Dense storage
F – FPGA
G – Graphics intensive
Hpc – High performance computing
I – Storage optimized
M – General purpose
Mac – macOS
P – GPU accelerated
R – Memory optimized
T – Burstable performance
U – High memory
VT – Video transcoding
X – Memory intensive
Processor families
a – AMD processors
i – Intel processors
Additional capabilities
d – instance store volumes
e – Extra storage or memory
z – High performance
flex – Flex instance
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