AWS EC2 Concepts - keshavbaweja-git/guides GitHub Wiki
Root Device Volume
- Contains the image used to boot the instance.
- Root device volume can be
- Instance store volume: with AMI loaded from S3 bucket. By default, Instance store volume is deleted when instance is terminated
- EBS volume: with AMI loaded from EBS snapshot
Instance store backed instance
EBS backed instance
Storage
CPU architectures, processor families
CPU Architecture | Processor Family |
---|---|
x86_64 | Intel |
x86_64_mac | Intel |
arm64 | AMD |
arm64 | Graviton |
Hypervisors
- Xen (Intel)
- Nitro (AWS)
Instance types
Instance type | Identifier |
---|---|
General purpose | M |
General purpose - burstable | T |
Compute optimized | C |
Memory optimized | R, X |
Storage optimized | I, D, H |
Accelerated computing | P |
DL | |
Inf | |
G | |
F | |
VT1 |