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Type Specialty Use Cases
C5 Computation oriented The C series is all about raw CPU power. Calculation heavy applications can benefit
D2 Disk IO High sequential read and write access to very large data sets, such as Hadoop distributed computing
F FPGA Anayltics, big data, specialized research
G3 Graphics Video encoding, 3D rendering, some cryptography
H1 High disk speed high disk throughput and high sequential disk I/O access to very large data sets. MapReduce workloads
I3 High speed storage Data warehousing and Big Data
M4/M5 General purpose Bigger, badder versions of the T series. The differences between the M and T series are more subtle than raw specs.
P3 GPU/Graphics Similar to G3 but oriented entirely around GPUs. Used for crypto mining, Machine learning, etc
R4 Memory instensive Apps that require in-memory instensive applications
T2/3 General purpose Web servers, small databases, etc
X1 Memory Optimized Apache Spark and other applications. Similar to R series. X series has more memory, R series more CPU
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