General Purpose

General purpose instances are suitable for various purposes, balancing CPU and RAM resources to handle typical computing workloads. These are suitable for various use cases such as web servers, small to medium-sized databases, application servers, development, and testing environments.

• Applicable types: m3az, m2a, t1i

m3az

m3az instance utilizes the latest 4th generation AMD EPYC 9004 series processors. These instances support high turbo clock speeds of up to 3.95GHz, providing a single-threaded CPU environment optimized for workloads executed on a single-threaded CPU, such as specific HPC applications.

Hardware specifications

• Up to 4.1GHz 4th generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 9474F Genoa)
• Up to 12.5Gbps network bandwidth
• Instance sizes supporting high-performance vCPUs and 128GiB memory, corresponding to up to 32 physical CPUs in a 1:1 ratio

Details

Instance size	vCPU	Memory(GiB)	Network bandwidth(Gbps)
m3az.large	2	8	Up to 10
m3az.xlarge	4	16	Up to 10
m3az.2xlarge	8	32	Up to 10
m3az.4xlarge	16	64	Up to 10
m3az.6xlarge	24	96	12.5
m3az.8xlarge	32	128	12.5

NUMA topology

The m3az instance has the following NUMA topology based on instance size.

Instance size	Number of NUMA domains	Default Cores per NUMA
m3az.large	1	2
m3az.xlarge	1	4
m3az.2xlarge	1	8
m3az.4xlarge	1	16
m3az.6xlarge	1	24
m3az.8xlarge	1	32

m2a

m2a instance utilizes 3rd generation AMD EPYC 7000 series processors. These instances support up to 3.6GHz all-core turbo clock speed, designed for workloads not utilizing the full available computing power, allowing users to optimize instance configurations considering both cost and performance.

Hardware specifications

• Up to 3.6GHz 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors (AMD EPYC 7643)
• Up to 25Gbps network bandwidth
• Instance sizes supporting up to 96 vCPUs and 384GiB memory
• Support for AMD instruction sets (AVX, AVX2)

Details

Instance size	vCPU	Memory(GiB)	Network bandwidth(Gbps)
m2a.large	2	8	Up to 10
m2a.xlarge	4	16	Up to 10
m2a.2xlarge	8	32	Up to 10
m2a.4xlarge	16	64	Up to 10
m2a.8xlarge	32	128	Up to 10
m2a.12xlarge	48	192	12.5
m2a.16xlarge	64	256	12.5
m2a.24xlarge	96	384	25

NUMA topology

The m2a instance has the following NUMA topology based on instance size.

Instance size	Number of NUMA domains	Default Cores per NUMA
m2a.large	1	1
m2a.xlarge	1	2
m2a.2xlarge	1	4
m2a.4xlarge	1	8
m2a.8xlarge	2	8
m2a.12xlarge	2	12
m2a.16xlarge	2	16
m2a.24xlarge	2	24

NUMA topology architecture

m2a.large

m2a.xlarge

m2a.2xlarge

m2a.4xlarge

m2a.8xlarge

m2a.12xlarge

m2a.16xlarge

m2a.24xlarge

t1i

The t1i instance is burstable next-generation general-purpose instance types, providing balanced computing, memory, and network resources suitable for applications experiencing moderate CPU usage with occasional spikes during usage. For more detailed information about burstable instances, refer to Burstable Instance.

caution

Ensure that the instance size meets the minimum memory requirements of the operating system and applications. For Windows operating systems, most instances should be micro or larger.

Hardware specifications

• Up to 3.9GHz 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake 5220 or Skylake 5120)
• Up to 5Gbps network bandwidth
• Instance sizes supporting up to 8 vCPUs and 32GiB memory
• Support for Intel instruction sets (AVX, AVX2, AVX-512)
• Baseline CPU performance suitable for handling general workloads
• Burstable CPU performance controlled by credits

Details

Instance size	vCPU	Memory(GiB)	Network bandwidth(Gbps)	CPU credits/hour	Credits accumulated (24 hours)	Baseline usage/vCPU
t1i.nano	2	0.5	Up to 5	6	144	5%
t1i.micro	2	1	Up to 5	12	288	10%
t1i.small	2	2	Up to 5	24	576	20%
t1i.medium	2	4	Up to 5	24	576	20%
t1i.large	2	8	Up to 5	36	864	30%
t1i.xlarge	4	16	Up to 5	96	2304	40%
t1i.2xlarge	8	32	Up to 5	192	4608	40%