Amazon EC2 Instance types

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

TOMERGE: AWS EC2 instances

EC2

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

EKS

• eksctl create cluster ...

Terraform

• Terraform resource: aws_instance: instance_type
• 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: m5.large, m5.4xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5a.xlarge, m5d.xlarge

T4

• t4g.xlarge

T3

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

• t3.2xlarge: 8vCPU, 32 GB ~ 242 USD/month us-east-1
• t3.xlarge: 4vCPU, 16 GB ~ 133 USD/month Ireland eu-west-1
• t3.large: 2vCPU, 8 GB
• t3.medium: 2vCPU, 4 GB ~ 30 USD/month
• t3.small: 2vCPU, 2 GB ~ 15 USD/month
• t3.micro
• t3.nano 2vCPU2, 0.5 GB ~ 4 USD/month
• t3a.micro

• 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 submodule: 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/
• curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-type
• Consider creating a Blue/Green Deployment to minimize downtime during upgrades
• https://blog.vizuri.com/limiting-allowed-aws-instance-type-with-iam-policy

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

• 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

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