Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is one of the most popular cloud computing platforms, with datacenters in the Northern Virginia, Northern California, Oregon, Sao Paulo, Ireland, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore.
Due to the large amount of configurations available on EC2, we are currently not able to provide default values for the image. Refer to both the EC2 Instance Types Matrix and the official Ubuntu AMIs page to define the AMI that will work for your location and instance size.
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Example
The following node file will create a micro instance of first generation (size: t1.micro) in the Northern Virginia datacenter (location: us-east-1) with a 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, EBS-backed AMI (image: ami-d2ff23ba, see the official Ubuntu AMIs page):
id: ec2_server
name: EC2 server
type: server
providers:
name: ec2
size: t1.micro
location: us-east-1
image: ami-d2ff23ba
Default values
The following values will be used by default for the provider if the attribute is missing.
| Attribute | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
location |
us-east-1 |
US East (N. Virginia) |
Values
Use the following values to set your provider's sizes and location attributes.
Size
| Value | Name | RAM | Disk (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
t1.micro |
Micro Instance | 613 |
15 |
m1.small |
Small Instance | 1740 |
160 |
m1.medium |
Medium Instance | 3700 |
410 |
m1.large |
Large Instance | 7680 |
850 |
m1.xlarge |
Extra Large Instance | 15360 |
1690 |
m2.xlarge |
High-Memory Extra Large Instance | 17510 |
420 |
m2.2xlarge |
High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance | 35021 |
850 |
m2.4xlarge |
High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large Instance | 70042 |
1690 |
m3.medium |
Medium Instance | 3840 |
4000 |
m3.large |
Large Instance | 7168 |
32000 |
m3.xlarge |
Extra Large Instance | 15360 |
80000 |
m3.2xlarge |
Double Extra Large Instance | 30720 |
160000 |
c1.medium |
High-CPU Medium Instance | 1740 |
350 |
c1.xlarge |
High-CPU Extra Large Instance | 7680 |
1690 |
cc1.4xlarge |
Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large Instance | 23552 |
1690 |
cc2.8xlarge |
Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large Instance | 63488 |
3370 |
c3.large |
Compute Optimized Large Instance | 3750 |
16 |
c3.xlarge |
Compute Optimized Extra Large Instance | 7000 |
40 |
c3.2xlarge |
Compute Optimized Double Extra Large Instance | 15000 |
80 |
c3.4xlarge |
Compute Optimized Quadruple Extra Large Instance | 30000 |
160 |
c3.8xlarge |
Compute Optimized Eight Extra Large Instance | 60000 |
320 |
cg1.4xlarge |
Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large Instance | 22528 |
1690 |
cr1.8xlarge |
High Memory Cluster Eight Extra Large | 244000 |
240 |
hs1.8xlarge |
High Storage Eight Extra Large Instance | 119808 |
48000 |
i2.xlarge |
High Storage Optimized Extra Large Instance | 31232 |
800 |
i2.2xlarge |
High Storage Optimized Double Extra Large Instance | 62464 |
1600 |
i2.4xlarge |
High Storage Optimized Quadruple Large Instance | 124928 |
3200 |
i2.8xlarge |
High Storage Optimized Eight Extra Large Instance | 249856 |
6400 |
Location
| Value | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
us-east-1 |
US East (Northern Virginia) | US |
us-west-1 |
US West (Oregon) | US |
us-west-2 |
US West (Northern California) | US |
eu-west-1 |
EU (Ireland) | Ireland |
ap-southeast-1 |
Asia Pacific (Singapore) | Singapore |
ap-southeast-2 |
Asia Pacific (Sydney) | Australia |
ap-northeast-1 |
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | Japan |
sa-east-1 |
South America (Sao Paulo) | Brazil |