This table shows which flavors of the Amazon Linux AMI are recommended on each Amazon EC2 instance type.

Instance Family HVM
EBS-Backed
64-bit
HVM
Instance Store
64-bit
PV
EBS-Backed
64-bit
PV
Instance Store
64-bit
M5      
M5d      
M4      
M3
T2
     
C5
     
C5d      
C4      
C3
X1e      
X1    
R5      
R5d      
R4      
R3    
z1d      
H1      
I3      
I2
   
D2
   
P3      
P2      
G3
     
F1