EC2 Instance Families

AWS EC2 instances organized by actual instance families (m5, c6g, r5, etc.). Each family represents a specific generation and optimization focus.

Current Generation Families

General Purpose

dl1 Machine Learning ASIC Instances
2 types
96
vCPU
768.0GB
Memory
$14.146 - 14.420
$/hour
Gen 1 Current Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
Distributed file systems Data processing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8275L
dl2q Machine Learning ASIC Instances
1 types
96
vCPU
768.0GB
Memory
$12.755
$/hour
Gen 2 Current Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
Distributed file systems Data processing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
f1 FPGA Instances
12 types
8 - 64
vCPU
122.0 - 976GB
Memory
$1.650 - 15.840
$/hour
Gen 1 Current Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
FPGA development Genomics research Financial analytics
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
f2 FPGA Instances
5 types
24 - 192
vCPU
256.0 - 2048GB
Memory
$2.303 - 20.928
$/hour
Gen 2 Current Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
FPGA development Genomics research Financial analytics
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
inf1 Machine Learning ASIC Instances
54 types
4 - 96
vCPU
8.0 - 192GB
Memory
$0.257 - 43.711
$/hour
Gen 1 Current Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL (Cascade Lake)
inf2 Machine Learning ASIC Instances
30 types
4 - 192
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.834 - 21.315
$/hour
Gen 2 Current Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
m4 General purpose
54 types
2 - 64
vCPU
8.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.111 - 29.088
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
m5 General purpose
192 types
2 - 96
vCPU
8.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.092 - 41.952
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
m5a General purpose
104 types
2 - 96
vCPU
8.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.179 - 43.469
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7571
m5ad General purpose
89 types
2 - 96
vCPU
8.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.121 - 44.141
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7571
m5d General purpose
146 types
2 - 96
vCPU
8.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.126 - 45.840
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
m5dn General purpose
35 types
2 - 96
vCPU
8.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.216 - 44.909
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
m5n General purpose
38 types
2 - 96
vCPU
8.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.155 - 31.456
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
m5zn General purpose
45 types
2 - 48
vCPU
8.0 - 192GB
Memory
$0.092 - 27.157
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8252
m6a General purpose
87 types
2 - 192
vCPU
8.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.101 - 91.200
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
m6g General purpose
163 types
1 - 64
vCPU
4.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.027 - 4.843
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
m6gd General purpose
159 types
1 - 64
vCPU
4.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.032 - 5.565
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
m6i General purpose
217 types
2 - 128
vCPU
8.0 - 512GB
Memory
$0.092 - 61.568
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
m6id General purpose
130 types
2 - 128
vCPU
8.0 - 512GB
Memory
$0.139 - 61.942
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
m6idn General purpose
78 types
2 - 128
vCPU
8.0 - 512GB
Memory
$0.215 - 66.992
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
m6in General purpose
82 types
2 - 128
vCPU
8.0 - 512GB
Memory
$0.178 - 64.820
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
m7a General purpose
63 types
1 - 192
vCPU
4.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.046 - 83.823
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
AMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
m7g General purpose
158 types
1 - 64
vCPU
4.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.029 - 4.853
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
AWS Graviton3 Processor
m7gd General purpose
89 types
1 - 64
vCPU
4.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.038 - 5.700
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
AWS Graviton3 Processor
m7i General purpose
140 types
2 - 192
vCPU
8.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.121 - 90.993
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
m8g General purpose
92 types
1 - 192
vCPU
4.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.050 - 13.859
$/hour
Gen 8 Current Gen 2023
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
AWS Graviton4 Processor
m8gd General purpose
34 types
1 - 192
vCPU
4.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.078 - 12.914
$/hour
Gen 8 Current Gen 2023
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
AWS Graviton4 Processor
t2 General purpose
79 types
1 - 8
vCPU
0.5 - 32GB
Memory
$0.007 - 3.529
$/hour
Gen 2 Current Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
Burstable workloads Web servers Development +1 more
Processors:
Intel Xeon Family
t3 General purpose
238 types
2 - 8
vCPU
0.5 - 32GB
Memory
$0.005 - 3.595
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
Burstable workloads Web servers Development +1 more
Processors:
Intel Skylake E5 2686 v5
t3a General purpose
93 types
2 - 8
vCPU
0.5 - 32GB
Memory
$0.005 - 3.633
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
Burstable workloads Web servers Development +1 more
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7571
t4g General purpose
173 types
2 - 8
vCPU
0.5 - 32GB
Memory
$0.004 - 0.684
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
Burstable workloads Web servers Development +1 more
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
trn1 Machine Learning ASIC Instances
4 types
8 - 128
vCPU
32.0 - 512GB
Memory
$1.358 - 23.650
$/hour
Gen 1 Current Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
Burstable workloads Web servers Development +1 more
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
trn1n Machine Learning ASIC Instances
1 types
128
vCPU
512.0GB
Memory
$24.780
$/hour
Gen 1 Current Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
Burstable workloads Web servers Development +1 more
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
trn2 Machine Learning ASIC Instances
1 types
192
vCPU
2048.0GB
Memory
N/A
$/hour
Gen 2 Current Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
Burstable workloads Web servers Development +1 more
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
vt1 Media Accelerator Instances
6 types
12 - 96
vCPU
24.0 - 192GB
Memory
$0.671 - 7.200
$/hour
Gen 1 Current Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
General purpose
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL

Compute Optimized

c4 Compute optimized
48 types
2 - 36
vCPU
3.8 - 60GB
Memory
$0.160 - 16.201
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)
c5 Compute optimized
180 types
2 - 96
vCPU
4.0 - 192GB
Memory
$0.102 - 46.061
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M Intel Xeon Platinum 8275L
c5a Compute optimized
116 types
2 - 96
vCPU
4.0 - 192GB
Memory
$0.081 - 45.221
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R32
c5ad Compute optimized
58 types
2 - 96
vCPU
4.0 - 192GB
Memory
$0.090 - 30.400
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R32
c5d Compute optimized
181 types
2 - 96
vCPU
4.0 - 192GB
Memory
$0.092 - 44.618
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M Intel Xeon Platinum 8275L
c5n Compute optimized
87 types
2 - 72
vCPU
5.2 - 192GB
Memory
$0.092 - 35.136
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M
c6a Compute optimized
88 types
2 - 192
vCPU
4.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.055 - 92.150
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
c6g Compute optimized
158 types
1 - 64
vCPU
2.0 - 128GB
Memory
$0.021 - 4.179
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
c6gd Compute optimized
100 types
1 - 64
vCPU
2.0 - 128GB
Memory
$0.038 - 4.467
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
c6gn Compute optimized
158 types
1 - 64
vCPU
2.0 - 128GB
Memory
$0.044 - 5.432
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
c6i Compute optimized
205 types
2 - 128
vCPU
4.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.085 - 60.672
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
c6id Compute optimized
110 types
2 - 128
vCPU
4.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.092 - 58.301
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
c6in Compute optimized
168 types
2 - 128
vCPU
4.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.124 - 62.995
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
c7a Compute optimized
62 types
1 - 192
vCPU
2.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.066 - 45.343
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
c7g Compute optimized
124 types
1 - 64
vCPU
2.0 - 128GB
Memory
$0.026 - 4.335
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AWS Graviton3 Processor
c7gd Compute optimized
100 types
1 - 64
vCPU
2.0 - 128GB
Memory
$0.031 - 5.276
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AWS Graviton3 Processor
c7gn Compute optimized
19 types
1 - 64
vCPU
2.0 - 128GB
Memory
$0.076 - 5.203
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AWS Graviton3 Processor
c7i Compute optimized
157 types
2 - 192
vCPU
4.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.089 - 91.114
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
c8g Compute optimized
100 types
1 - 192
vCPU
2.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.044 - 11.808
$/hour
Gen 8 Current Gen 2023
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AWS Graviton4 Processor
c8gd Compute optimized
30 types
1 - 192
vCPU
2.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.068 - 12.290
$/hour
Gen 8 Current Gen 2023
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AWS Graviton4 Processor
c8gn Compute optimized
13 types
1 - 192
vCPU
2.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.063 - 15.235
$/hour
Gen 8 Current Gen 2023
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
AWS Graviton4 Processor
hpc6a Compute optimized
5 types
96
vCPU
384.0GB
Memory
$3.093 - 5.848
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
Big data workloads High sequential read/write
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
hpc6id Compute optimized
1 types
64
vCPU
1024.0GB
Memory
N/A
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
Big data workloads High sequential read/write
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
hpc7a Compute optimized
16 types
24 - 192
vCPU
768.0GB
Memory
$7.200 - 11.584
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
Big data workloads High sequential read/write
Processors:
AMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
hpc7g Compute optimized
8 types
16 - 64
vCPU
128.0GB
Memory
$1.795 - 2.477
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
Big data workloads High sequential read/write
Processors:
AWS Graviton3 Processor

Memory Optimized

r4 Memory optimized
64 types
2 - 64
vCPU
15.2 - 488GB
Memory
$0.092 - 30.259
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
r5 Memory optimized
202 types
2 - 96
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.155 - 46.464
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
r5a Memory optimized
89 types
2 - 96
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.113 - 42.920
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7571
r5ad Memory optimized
76 types
2 - 96
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.160 - 47.083
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7571
r5b Memory optimized
53 types
2 - 96
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.243 - 47.568
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
r5d Memory optimized
189 types
2 - 96
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.092 - 48.768
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
r5dn Memory optimized
65 types
2 - 96
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.184 - 46.608
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
r5n Memory optimized
106 types
2 - 96
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.169 - 48.240
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
r6a Memory optimized
71 types
2 - 192
vCPU
16.0 - 1536GB
Memory
$0.125 - 82.886
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
r6g Memory optimized
164 types
1 - 64
vCPU
8.0 - 512GB
Memory
$0.057 - 5.491
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
r6gd Memory optimized
108 types
1 - 64
vCPU
8.0 - 512GB
Memory
$0.072 - 6.016
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
r6i Memory optimized
192 types
2 - 128
vCPU
16.0 - 1024GB
Memory
$0.092 - 58.957
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
r6id Memory optimized
116 types
2 - 128
vCPU
16.0 - 1024GB
Memory
$0.092 - 65.581
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
r6idn Memory optimized
60 types
2 - 128
vCPU
16.0 - 1024GB
Memory
$0.238 - 66.393
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
r6in Memory optimized
60 types
2 - 128
vCPU
16.0 - 1024GB
Memory
$0.209 - 62.557
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
r7a Memory optimized
52 types
1 - 192
vCPU
8.0 - 1536GB
Memory
$0.131 - 62.150
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
AMD EPYC 9R14 Processor
r7g Memory optimized
154 types
1 - 64
vCPU
8.0 - 512GB
Memory
$0.039 - 6.131
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
AWS Graviton3 Processor
r7gd Memory optimized
108 types
1 - 64
vCPU
8.0 - 512GB
Memory
$0.044 - 6.698
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
AWS Graviton3 Processor
r7i Memory optimized
149 types
2 - 192
vCPU
16.0 - 1536GB
Memory
$0.150 - 94.621
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
r7iz Memory optimized
26 types
2 - 128
vCPU
16.0 - 1024GB
Memory
$0.251 - 67.200
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
r8g Memory optimized
82 types
1 - 192
vCPU
8.0 - 1536GB
Memory
$0.043 - 16.510
$/hour
Gen 8 Current Gen 2023
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
AWS Graviton4 Processor
r8gd Memory optimized
35 types
1 - 192
vCPU
8.0 - 1536GB
Memory
$0.083 - 18.891
$/hour
Gen 8 Current Gen 2023
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
AWS Graviton4 Processor
x1 Memory optimized
21 types
64 - 128
vCPU
976.0 - 1952GB
Memory
$7.751 - 72.936
$/hour
Gen 1 Current Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
Apache Spark Apache Hadoop In-memory databases
Processors:
High Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
x1e Memory optimized
60 types
4 - 128
vCPU
122.0 - 3904GB
Memory
$0.974 - 75.520
$/hour
Gen 1 Current Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
Apache Spark Apache Hadoop In-memory databases
Processors:
High Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)
x2gd Memory optimized
18 types
1 - 64
vCPU
16.0 - 1024GB
Memory
$0.085 - 6.003
$/hour
Gen 2 Current Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
Apache Spark Apache Hadoop In-memory databases
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
x2idn Memory optimized
55 types
64 - 128
vCPU
1024.0 - 2048GB
Memory
$2.944 - 73.229
$/hour
Gen 2 Current Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
Apache Spark Apache Hadoop In-memory databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
x2iedn Memory optimized
106 types
4 - 128
vCPU
128.0 - 4096GB
Memory
$0.928 - 92.570
$/hour
Gen 2 Current Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
Apache Spark Apache Hadoop In-memory databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake)
x2iezn Memory optimized
18 types
8 - 48
vCPU
256.0 - 1536GB
Memory
$0.736 - 32.208
$/hour
Gen 2 Current Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
Apache Spark Apache Hadoop In-memory databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8252
x8g Memory optimized
22 types
1 - 192
vCPU
16.0 - 3072GB
Memory
$0.139 - 26.554
$/hour
Gen 8 Current Gen 2023
Common Use Cases:
Apache Spark Apache Hadoop In-memory databases
Processors:
AWS Graviton4 Processor
z1d Memory optimized
43 types
2 - 48
vCPU
16.0 - 384GB
Memory
$0.265 - 25.632
$/hour
Gen 1 Current Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
Memory-intensive applications Electronic design automation
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8151

Storage Optimized

d3 Storage optimized
35 types
4 - 32
vCPU
32.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.607 - 18.370
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
Distributed file systems Data processing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
d3en Storage optimized
28 types
2 - 48
vCPU
8.0 - 192GB
Memory
$0.635 - 17.644
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
Distributed file systems Data processing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
h1 Storage optimized
9 types
8 - 64
vCPU
32.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.555 - 31.344
$/hour
Gen 1 Current Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
Big data workloads High sequential read/write
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
i3 Storage optimized
117 types
2 - 64
vCPU
15.2 - 488GB
Memory
$0.181 - 31.936
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
i3en Storage optimized
148 types
2 - 96
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.244 - 54.672
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
i3p Storage optimized
1 types
64
vCPU
488.0GB
Memory
$6.016
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
i4g Storage optimized
29 types
2 - 64
vCPU
16.0 - 512GB
Memory
$0.173 - 9.478
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
i4i Storage optimized
176 types
2 - 128
vCPU
16.0 - 1024GB
Memory
$0.195 - 68.292
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
i7i Storage optimized
18 types
2 - 192
vCPU
16.0 - 1536GB
Memory
$0.189 - 31.318
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
i7ie Storage optimized
60 types
2 - 192
vCPU
16.0 - 1536GB
Memory
$0.471 - 56.266
$/hour
Gen 7 Current Gen 2021
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
i8g Storage optimized
41 types
2 - 192
vCPU
16.0 - 1536GB
Memory
$0.195 - 22.013
$/hour
Gen 8 Current Gen 2023
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
AWS Graviton4 Processor
im4gn Storage optimized
38 types
2 - 64
vCPU
8.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.204 - 8.005
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
is4gen Storage optimized
45 types
1 - 32
vCPU
6.0 - 192GB
Memory
$0.146 - 6.322
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor

Accelerated Computing

g3 GPU instance
25 types
16 - 64
vCPU
122.0 - 488GB
Memory
$1.140 - 9.624
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
Graphics workstations Game streaming Machine learning
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
g3s GPU instance
5 types
4
vCPU
30.5GB
Memory
$0.878 - 1.294
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
Graphics workstations Game streaming Machine learning
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
g4ad GPU instance
24 types
4 - 64
vCPU
16.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.416 - 6.816
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
Graphics workstations Game streaming Machine learning
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R32
g4dn GPU instance
133 types
4 - 64
vCPU
16.0 - 256GB
Memory
$0.584 - 8.857
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
Graphics workstations Game streaming Machine learning
Processors:
Intel Xeon Family
g5 GPU instance
82 types
4 - 192
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$1.107 - 30.010
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
Graphics workstations Game streaming Machine learning
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R32
g5g GPU instance
24 types
4 - 64
vCPU
8.0 - 128GB
Memory
$0.445 - 5.291
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
Graphics workstations Game streaming Machine learning
Processors:
AWS Graviton2 Processor
g6 GPU instance
83 types
4 - 192
vCPU
16.0 - 768GB
Memory
$0.736 - 21.205
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
Graphics workstations Game streaming Machine learning
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
g6e GPU instance
40 types
4 - 192
vCPU
32.0 - 1536GB
Memory
$1.472 - 47.558
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
Graphics workstations Game streaming Machine learning
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
gr6 GPU instance
19 types
16 - 32
vCPU
128.0 - 256GB
Memory
$2.029 - 4.862
$/hour
Gen 6 Current Gen 2019
Common Use Cases:
Graphics workstations Game streaming Machine learning
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R32
p2 GPU instance
23 types
4 - 64
vCPU
61.0 - 732GB
Memory
$0.997 - 30.432
$/hour
Gen 2 Current Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
Machine learning GPU computing High performance computing
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
p3 GPU instance
28 types
8 - 64
vCPU
61.0 - 488GB
Memory
$1.472 - 33.984
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
Machine learning GPU computing High performance computing
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
p3dn GPU instance
2 types
96
vCPU
768.0GB
Memory
$37.579 - 38.127
$/hour
Gen 3 Current Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
Machine learning GPU computing High performance computing
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8175 (Skylake)
p4d GPU instance
9 types
96
vCPU
1152.0GB
Memory
$24.338 - 35.725
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
Machine learning GPU computing High performance computing
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8275L
p4de GPU instance
4 types
96
vCPU
1152.0GB
Memory
$31.229 - 38.659
$/hour
Gen 4 Current Gen 2014
Common Use Cases:
Machine learning GPU computing High performance computing
Processors:
Intel Xeon Platinum 8275L
p5 GPU instance
9 types
192
vCPU
2048.0GB
Memory
$58.899 - 83.887
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
Machine learning GPU computing High performance computing
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
p5e GPU instance
1 types
192
vCPU
2048.0GB
Memory
$1.843
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
Machine learning GPU computing High performance computing
Processors:
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
p5en GPU instance
6 types
192
vCPU
2048.0GB
Memory
$63.421 - 90.891
$/hour
Gen 5 Current Gen 2016
Common Use Cases:
Machine learning GPU computing High performance computing
Processors:
Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)

Previous Generation Families

a1 General purpose
29 types
1 - 16
vCPU
2.0 - 32GB
Memory
$0.027 - 0.862
$/hour
Gen 1 Previous Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
Web servers Containerized applications Microservices
Processors:
AWS Graviton Processor
c1 Compute optimized
16 types
2 - 8
vCPU
1.7 - 7GB
Memory
$0.130 - 2.124
$/hour
Gen 1 Previous Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon Family
c3 Compute optimized
38 types
2 - 32
vCPU
3.8 - 60GB
Memory
$0.100 - 15.488
$/hour
Gen 3 Previous Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
cc2 Compute optimized
5 types
32
vCPU
60.5GB
Memory
$2.000 - 2.775
$/hour
Gen 2 Previous Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2670
cr1 Memory optimized
4 types
32
vCPU
244.0GB
Memory
$3.500 - 4.105
$/hour
Gen 1 Previous Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
High performance computing Scientific computing Web servers
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2670
d2 Storage optimized
58 types
4 - 36
vCPU
30.5 - 244GB
Memory
$0.368 - 20.569
$/hour
Gen 2 Previous Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
Distributed file systems Data processing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
g2 GPU instance
9 types
8 - 32
vCPU
15.0 - 60GB
Memory
$0.988 - 4.198
$/hour
Gen 2 Previous Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
Graphics workstations Game streaming Machine learning
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge)
hs1 Storage optimized
7 types
16
vCPU
117.0GB
Memory
$5.144 - 9.320
$/hour
Gen 1 Previous Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
Big data workloads High sequential read/write
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2650
i2 Storage optimized
37 types
2 - 32
vCPU
15.0 - 244GB
Memory
$0.468 - 20.938
$/hour
Gen 2 Previous Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
NoSQL databases Data warehousing High sequential I/O
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
m1 General purpose
34 types
1 - 4
vCPU
1.7 - 15GB
Memory
$0.050 - 1.498
$/hour
Gen 1 Previous Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon Family
m2 Memory optimized
27 types
2 - 8
vCPU
17.1 - 68GB
Memory
$0.025 - 4.184
$/hour
Gen 2 Previous Gen 2010
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon Family
m3 General purpose
27 types
1 - 8
vCPU
3.8 - 30GB
Memory
$0.046 - 3.978
$/hour
Gen 3 Previous Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
General purpose Web servers Development environments
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
r3 Memory optimized
33 types
2 - 32
vCPU
15.2 - 244GB
Memory
$0.100 - 8.199
$/hour
Gen 3 Previous Gen 2013
Common Use Cases:
In-memory databases Real-time analytics High-performance databases
Processors:
Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge)
t1 Micro instances
9 types
1
vCPU
0.6GB
Memory
$0.020 - 0.077
$/hour
Gen 1 Previous Gen 2008
Common Use Cases:
Burstable workloads Web servers Development +1 more
Processors:
Variable

Instance Family Selection Guide

Latest Generation Recommendations:
  • t4g - ARM-based burstable (cost-effective)
  • m7i - Latest general purpose (Intel)
  • c7i - Latest compute optimized
  • r7i - Latest memory optimized
Popular Stable Families:
  • m5/m6i - Reliable general purpose
  • c5/c6i - Proven compute performance
  • r5/r6i - Memory-intensive workloads
  • t3 - Entry-level burstable
Tip: Family names indicate generation and optimization. Higher numbers typically mean newer generations (e.g., m7i is newer than m5). Letters indicate variations: 'i' for Intel, 'a' for AMD, 'g' for Graviton (ARM), 'n' for network-optimized.