1. Choose an Instance Type
Decide on the instance type (a mix of computing power and storage) you want for your use case based on your workload.
General purpose instances
Based on Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage, provides additional flexibility to start up and shut down instances or move to another instance type when you need different resource levels.
• Economy – Most economical general-purpose server configuration; use for basic query workloads and development environments.
• Economy Sport – For memory-optimized server configurations with more memory per core to accelerate queries against larger data sets.
Storage-optimized instances
• Enterprise – Adds hard disk storage locally to accelerate access to more frequently used data instead of waiting for EBS data transfers.
• Enterprise Capacity – Optimizes local storage and memory capacity for putting more of the database onto local hard disks to accelerate performance and maximize availability for workloads with more updates.
• Enterprise Sport – Faster local storage (SSDs) with big memory to provide maximum performance for heavy workloads (more users or more complex queries covering larger data sets).