I’ve written before how I use Amazon EC2 to handle my server needs for various startups I’m involved with. Amazingly, Amazon just announced new instance types to be used for EC2 to address larger instance needs.
Small Instance (default)
- 1.7 GB memory
- 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit)
- 160 GB instance storage (150 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
- 32-bit platform
- I/O Performance: Moderate
- Price: $0.10 per instance hour
Large Instance
- 7.5 GB memory
- 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
- 850 GB instance storage (2×420 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
- 64-bit platform
- I/O Performance: High
- Price: $0.40 per instance hour
Extra Large Instance
- 15 GB memory
- 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
- 1,690 GB instance storage (4×420 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
- 64-bit platform
- I/O Performance: High
- Price: $0.80 per instance hour
One of the challenges in the past has been trying to figure out how to tie together a lot of separate smaller instances when you need large centralized storage or or a more beefy centralized application server. These new large and extra-large instance types make that problem go away and give you tremendous growth opportunity.
I’m continually amazed at the things going on over at AWS.
