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Amazon Adds High-CPU Instances
By John | May 30, 2008
High-CPU Instances
- Instances of this family have proportionally more CPU resources than memory (RAM) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications.
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- 1.7 GB of memory
5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each)
350 GB of instance storage
32-bit platform
I/O Performance: Moderate
Price: $0.20 per instance hour
High-CPU Medium Instance
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- 7 GB of memory
20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each)
1690 GB of instance storage
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: High
Price: $0.80 per instance hour
High-CPU Extra Large Instance
