Difference Between Instance Family & Instance Type

[ralph]

Basically the title.

I did some research and based on my understanding, instance types are these ones:

General Purpose

Compute Optimized

etc.

Then instance families are these ones (for General Purpose):

A1, T4g, T3, T3a, T2, etc.

Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.

Thank you

[TutorialsDojo-Support]

Hello ralph,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Instance Family:

General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Accelerated Computing, and Storage Optimized

Instance Types:

For General Purpose:

t2.nano, t2.micro, t2.small, t2.medium, t2.large, etc.

For more information about EC2 Instance, you can check out this AWS website.

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

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Gerome @ Tutorials Dojo