EC2 Instance Types: A Complete Guide to Choosing the Right Compute
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Every workload on AWS starts with a choice: which EC2 instance type? Pick wrong and you overpay for idle resources or starve your application. AWS offers hundreds of instance types across families, generations, and sizes. This guide breaks down the naming convention, walks through every family, explains the Nitro system, and covers the newer Flex instances.