[alek_m]

Every time I'm starting a new service to run internally or reviewing something we have going, I find myself struggling to find the right instance type for the needs.

For instance, there are three families (r, x, z) that optimize RAM in various ways in various combinations and I always forget about the x and z variants.

So I put together this "cheat sheet" for us internally and thought I'd share it for anyone interested.

Pull requests welcome for updates: https://github.com/wrble/public/blob/main/aws-instance-types...

Did I miss anything?

[seneca]

It seems this may have been posted on the wrong article, as it's completely unrelated to the topic.

[secondcoming]

Both AWS and GCP allow you to customise a machine's spec. You're not limited to the ones they offer.

[loriverkutya]

Maybe I’m not 100% up-to-date with AWS Ec2 offerings, but as far as I’m aware, you can only choose from predefined instance types.