Amazon EC2 Instance types

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

EC2

• aws ec2 run-instances ... --instance-type XXXX
• aws ec2 describe-instance-types

EKS

• eksctl create cluster ...

Terraform

• Terraform resource: aws_instance
• Terraform resource: aws_launch_template
• Terraform resource: Terraform eks_managed_node_groups: instance_types

R5

• R5.xlarge

M6

• m6i.16xlarge: 64, 256 GB
• m6g.4xlarge
• m6i.4xlarge: 16x64 GB, aprox $550/month

M5

• m5.large 2 vCPU 8 GB EBS-Only Up to 10 Up to 4,750 approx. $70/month
• m5d.xlarge 4 vCPU 16 GB 1 x 150 NVMe SSD Up to 10 Up to 4,750
• m5.4xlarge

T4

• t4g.xlarge

T3

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t3/

• t3.2xlarge: 8vCPU, 32 GB
• t3.xlarge
• t3.large: 2vCPU, 8 GB
• t3.medium
• t3.small: 2vCPU, 2 GB
• t3.micro
• t3.nano

• t2.micro

Errors

• eksctl create cluster
• CREATE_FAILED: does not currently have sufficient capacity

Related

• Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
• AWS RDS Instance Types
• To change the instance type, the instance must be in the stopped state. , Public IP will change.
• m5.large: based on Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M processors and AWS Nitro System
• EKS (eksctl create cluster) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/choosing-instance-type.html
• aws rds describe-db-engine-versions
• Amazon RDS Instance Types, Burstable
• GCP machine families
• Terraform eks_managed_node_groups: instance_types
• Karpenter: node.kubernetes.io/instance-type
• Karpenter: controller.node Discovered 495 EC2 instance types
• terraform show | grep instance_type
• https://instances.vantage.sh/
• c5a, c5ad, c6a, c6i

Activities

• Create Amazon ec2 instance with Ansible
• Read FAQ: https://github.com/terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks/blob/master/docs/faq.md#why-are-there-no-changes-when-a-node-groups-desired_size-is-modified

See also

• AWS EC2, Amazon EC2 API, aws ec2, AWS::EC2, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, CPU credits, Instance type, EC2 limitations, 169.254.169.254, Instance metadata and user data (IMDS), InstanceType, InstanceId, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS EC2 Instance Connect, launch template, lifecycle, AWS Security group (SG), Amazon EC2 Recycle Bin, Amazon EC2 Mac Instances, Global View
• Amazon EC2 Instance types, computed optimized, memory optimized, high memory, AMI, Burstable, CPU credits, on-demand, spot, Karpenter, t2, t3, t4g, r5, r6, c5 (c5a, c5ad), c6 (c6a, c6i), m5, m6i, m7i, c7i, c7g, r6g, r6i, G5, G6, x1, aws ec2 describe-instance-types, vCPU, VcpuLimitExceeded, im4gn
• AWS computing, AWS EC2, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, Amazon EC2 Instance types

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