haydenk/ec2_instance_types.md

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Family	Specialty	Use Case
F1	Field Programmable Gate Array	Genomics research, financial analytics, real-time video processing, big data, etc
I3	High Speed Storage	NoSQL DBs, Data Warehousing, etc
G3	Graphics Intensive	Video Encoding/3D Application Streaming
H1	High Disk Throughput	MapReduce-based workloads, distributed file systems such as HDFS and MapR-FS
T2	Lowest Cost, General Purpose	Web Servers/Small DBs
D2	Dense Storage	Fileservers/Data Warehousing/Hadoop
R4	Memory Optimized	Memory Intensive Apps/DBs
M5	General Purpose	Application Servers
C5	Compute Optimized	CPU Intensive Apps/DBs
P3	Graphics/General Purpose GPU	Machine Learning, BitCoin Mining, etc
X1	Memory Optimized	SAP HANA/Apache Spark, etc

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