Advantage of EC2
In the previous section, you learned about various EC2 instances provided by AWS. Selecting the correct EC2 instance for a given workload means finding the instance family that closely matches your workload's CPU and memory needs. Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of instances, which give you lots of flexibility to compute right-size resources to match workload needs while keeping your cost low. Let's look at them and understand the key advantages of using EC2.
The diverse set of instances to choose
EC2 offers nearly 400 instances to enable customers to run virtually every workload. You can choose from instances that offer less than a single processor (T3 instances) and up to 96 processors (C5 instances). Memory is available from the hundreds of megabytes (T3 instances) to 24 terabytes (High Memory Instance), the most memory of any major IaaS provider. Network performance ranges from a single Gigabit (T2 instances)to 100 Gigabit (Elastic Fabric Adapter)....