Launching AWS EC2 Instances

• AMI - Amazon Machine Instances - Marketplace of all the operating systems

Launching an EC2 instance

1. Go to Launch an EC2 instance
2. Initialize the Name and the tags
3. Select the Amazon Machine Image
4. Select your required instance type

AWS Instance Families

Family	Use Case	Examples
t-series	Burstable, low-cost general purpose	t3, t4g
m-series	General purpose	m6g, m5, m7i
c-series	Compute-optimized	c7g, c6i, c5
r-series	Memory-optimized	r6g, r5, r7i
x-series	High memory for in-memory databases	x2idn, x2gd
i-series	IOPS optimized, storage-intensive	i4i, i3
g/p-series	GPU/accelerated computing	g5, p4, inf1
d/h-series	Dense storage	d3en, h1
z-series	High frequency compute	z1d
a-series	Arm-based (Graviton processors)	a1, t4g, m6g

GCP Instance Families

Family	Use Case	Examples
t-series	Burstable, low-cost general purpose	t3, t4g
m-series	General purpose	m6g, m5, m7i
c-series	Compute-optimized	c7g, c6i, c5
r-series	Memory-optimized	r6g, r5, r7i
x-series	High memory for in-memory databases	x2idn, x2gd
i-series	IOPS optimized, storage-intensive	i4i, i3
g/p-series	GPU/accelerated computing	g5, p4, inf1
d/h-series	Dense storage	d3en, h1
z-series	High frequency compute	z1d
a-series	Arm-based (Graviton processors)	a1, t4g, m6g

Azure Instance Series

Series	Use Case	Examples
B-series	Burstable VMs	B2s, B4ms
D-series	General purpose	D4s_v3, D2as_v5
E-series	Memory-optimized	E4s_v3, E8as_v5
F-series	Compute-optimized	F4s, F72s_v2
M-series	High memory (SAP, databases)	M128ms, Mv2
L-series	Storage optimized	L8s, L64s_v3
N-series	GPU/AI workloads	NC6, ND96asr_v4
H-series	High Performance Computing	HB120rs_v3, HC44rs
A-series	Entry-level	A2, A4_v2
Av2-series	Budget workloads	A2_v2, A4_v2
Dv5/Dasv5	Latest general-purpose with Intel/AMD CPUs	D4as_v5, D8_v5

1. Select or create your key pair (.ppk or .pem)
2. Select your Network
   • Select your VPC
   • Select the required subnets (e.g., 3 subnets in Mumbai —- 1a,1b,1c)
   • Select the Availability Zones
3. Security Groups
   • Firewall protection for EC2 instances
   • NACL - network access control list
   • WAF - web application firewall
4. Select the required storage
5. Select the required number of Instances
6. Finally launch the instance