EC2 Instance Types

Instances Types describe the "hardware" components that an EC2 instance will run on:
* Compute power (processor/vCPU)
* Memory
* Storage Options/optimization (hard drive)
* Network Performance

 It's important to use the proper instance type to handle your application's workload

 There is a collection of preconfigured instance types that are grouped into families and types that you can choose from:

TYPE	FAMILY	Notes
t2	General Purpose	"Burstable" performance instances
m3	General Purpose	Nice Balance
c3/c4	Compute Optimized	For high traffic front end fleets, web servers
d2	Storage Optimized	For large-scale data warehouses or parallel file systems
i2	Storage Optimized	For large-scale data warehouses or parallel file systems
g2	GPU Optimized	For machine learning, high performance databases, rendering
p2	GPU Optimized	For machine learning, high performance databases, rendering
r3/r4	Memory Optimized	For databases, memcached, large deployments of enterprise applications
x1	Memory Optimized	For databases, memcached, large deployments of enterprise applications