Instance Type Explorer

Why Instance Type Explorer?

Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of over 750 instance types optimized to fit different use cases. With EC2 Instance Type Explorer, you can more easily navigate and discover the instances that are right for your workloads and business needs. Using filters, you can quickly narrow the search for the right instance family based on instance category, or by hardware configuration. For additional details on each instance family, visit EC2 Instance Types Details Page or respective product details page.

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  • General Purpose

    Amazon EC2 M8g Instances

    Amazon EC2 M8g instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for general purpose workloads. They offer up to 30% better performance over the seventh-generation AWS Graviton3-based M7g instances.

    Ideal use cases:

    Applications built on open source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.

    Key technology:

    • Powered by custom-built AWS Graviton4 processors
    • Up to 192 vCPUs and up to 768 GiB of memory
    • Up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth
  • Compute Optimized

    Amazon EC2 C8g Instances

    Amazon EC2 C8g instances, powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton4 processors, provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for compute-intensive workloads. They offer up to 30% better performance over the seventh generation AWS Graviton3-based C7g instances.

    Ideal use cases:

    High performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad-serving.

    Key technology:

    • Powered by custom-built AWS Graviton4 processors
    • Up to 192 vCPUs and up to 384 GiB of memory
    • Up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth
  • Memory Optimized

    Amazon EC2 R8g Instances

    Amazon EC2 R8g instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for memory-intensive workloads. They offer up to 30% better performance over the seventh-generation AWS Graviton3-based R7g instances.

    Ideal use cases: Memory-intensive workloads such as open source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics.

    Key technology:

    • Custom-built AWS Graviton4 processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse V2 cores
    • Up to 192 vCPUs and up to 1,536 GiB of memory
    • Up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) bandwidth
  • Memory Optimized

    Amazon EC2 X8g Instances

    Amazon EC2 X8g instances, powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton4 processors, provide the best price performance among Amazon EC2 X-series instances. They offer up to 60% better performance over the previous generation AWS Graviton2-based X2gd instances.

    Ideal use cases: Memory-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases (Redis, Memcached), relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), electronic design automation (EDA) workloads, real-time big data analytics, real-time caching servers, and memory-intensive containerized applications.

    Key technology:

    • Powered by custom-built AWS Graviton4 processors
    • Up to 192 vCPUs and up to 3,072 GiB of memory
    • Up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth
  • Storage Optimized

    Amazon EC2 I8g Instances

    Amazon EC2 I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. They deliver the best compute and storage performance among storage-optimized Amazon EC2 instances.

    Ideal use cases: I/O intensive workloads that require low latency access to data such as transactional databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), real-time databases, NoSQL databases (Aerospike, Apache Druid, Clickhouse, MongoDB), and real-time analytics such as Apache Spark.

    Key technology:

    • Powered by custom-built AWS Graviton4 processors
    • Up to 96 vCPUs and up to 768 GiB of memory
    • Up to 22.5 TB of storage with 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs
    • Up to 56.25 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 30 Gbps Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth
  • General Purpose

    Amazon EC2 M7g Instances

    Amazon EC2 M7g instances, powered by AWS Graviton3 processors, are designed for general purpose workloads. They offer up to 25% better performance over the sixth-generation AWS Graviton2-based M6g instances.

    Ideal use cases: Applications built on open-source software such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets

    Key technology:

    • Custom-built AWS Graviton3 processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse-V1 cores
    • Up to 64 vCPUs and up to 256 GiB of memory
    • Up to 30 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth
  • General Purpose

    Amazon EC2 M7gd Instances

    Amazon EC2 M7gd instances are compute-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and include local NVMe-based SSDs that are physically connected to the host server. They offer up to 45% better real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances.

    Ideal use cases: General purpose workloads that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics.

    Key technology:

    • Custom-built AWS Graviton3 processor with 64-bit Arm Neoverse-V1 cores
    • Up to 64 vCPUs and up to 256 GiB of memory
    • Up to 30 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth
    • Up to 3.8 TB NVMe SSD instance storage
  • General Purpose

    Amazon EC2 M7i Instances

    Amazon EC2 M7i instances are powered by custom 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to M6i instances. M7i instances offer price performance benefits for workloads that need larger instance sizes (up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory) or continuous high CPU usage.

    Ideal Use cases:

    M7i instances are ideal for workloads including large application servers and databases, gaming servers, CPU-based machine learning, and video streaming.

    Key technology:

    • Up to 3.2 GHz 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
    • Up to 192 vCPUs and up to 768 GiB of memory
    • Up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth
    • New Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerate matrix multiplication operations
  • General Purpose

    Amazon EC2 M7i-flex Instances

    Amazon EC2 M7i-flex instances are powered by custom 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to M6i instances. M7i-flex instances provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose workloads.

    Ideal Use cases:

    M7i-flex instances are a great first choice to seamlessly run a majority of general-purpose workloads, including web and application servers, virtual desktops, batch processing, microservices, databases, and enterprise applications.

    Key technology:

    • Up to 3.2 GHz 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
    • Up to 32 vCPUs and up to 128 GiB of memory
    • Up to 12.5 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 10 Gbps EBS bandwidth
    • New Advance Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerate matrix multiplication operations
  • General Purpose

    Amazon EC2 M7a Instances

    Amazon EC2 M7a instances are powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors and deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances.

    Ideal Use cases:

    These instances are SAP-certified and ideal for applications that benefit from high performance and high throughput, such as financial applications, application servers, simulation modeling, gaming, mid-size data stores, application development environments, and caching fleets.

    Key technology:

    • Up to 3.7 GHz 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors
    • Up to 192 vCPUs and up to 768 GiB of memory
    • Up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth
  • General Purpose

    Amazon EC2 x86-based Mac Instances

    Mac instances are powered by Apple Mac mini computers and built on the AWS Nitro System. This EC2 family gives developers access to macOS so they can develop, build, test, and sign applications that require the Xcode IDE.

    Ideal Use cases:

    Developing, building, testing, and signing iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS applications on the Xcode IDE

    Key technology:

    • Intel core i7 processors with 3.2 GHz (4.6 GHz turbo)
    • 6 physical / 12 logical cores
    • 32 GiB of memory
    • Instance storage is available via Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
    • Mac instances are dedicated, bare-metal instances which are accessible in the EC2 console as dedicated hosts
  • General Purpose

    Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances

    Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances are built on Apple M2 Pro Mac mini computers and are powered by the AWS Nitro system. They deliver up to 35% faster performance compared to EC2 M1 Mac instances for iOS and macOS application build workloads.

    Ideal Use cases:

    Developing, building, testing, and signing iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS applications

    Key technology:

    • Apple M2 Pro chip with 12 CPU cores, 19 GPU cores, 32 GiB of memory, and 16-core Apple Neural Engine
    • Instance storage is available via Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
    • Mac instances are dedicated, bare-metal instances which are accessible in the EC2 console as dedicated hosts
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