I need some solid information about EC2 instance types. Up until now, I’ve been choosing rather blindly, judging instance suitability based only on instict.
Turns out, Amazon has a rather nice summary document laying out the intended roles of various instance groups and specific instances.
| [Choosing the Right EC2 Instance Type for Your Application | AWS Official Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/choosing-the-right-ec2-instance-type-for-your-application/) |
Updates/Additions
A webinar video from June 2016: Choosing the Right EC2 Instance and Applicable Use Cases - AWS June 2016 Webinar Series - YouTube
| A video from November 2014: [AWS re:Invent 2014 | (SDD406) Amazon EC2 Instances Deep Dive - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujGx0tiI1L4) |
Three web pages enumerating EC2 instance types:
- EC2 Instance Pricing – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison
- EC2 Instance Types – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
For insight into changing an instance’s type, see: * How to safely upgrade an Amazon EC2 instance from t1.micro to large? - Stack Overflow. * Resizing Your Instance - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud * Changing the Instance Size of Your Reservations - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud * Moving an EC2 Instance to a Larger (or Smaller) Instance Type · Alestic.com