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Family Speciality Use Case
D2 Dense Storage Fileservers/Data Warehouseing/Hadoop
R4 Memory Optimized Memory Intensive Apps/DBs
M4 General Purpose Application Servers
C4 Compute Optimized CPU Intensive Apps/DBs
G2 Graphics Intensive Video Encoding/3D Application Streaming
I2 High Speed Storage NoSQL, DBs, Data Warehousing etc
F1 Field Programmable Gate Array Hardware acceleration for your code
T2 Lowest Cost, General Purpose Web Servers/Small DBs
P2 Graphics/General Purpose GPU Machine Learning, Bit Coin Mining etc
X1 Memory Optimized SAP HANA/Apache Spark etc