Amazon has announced the availability of two new Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types with increased CPU processing power, bringing the total number of instance types to five.
The new instances are termed “High-CPU” versions, and they have a focus on raw processing power as measured in EC2 Compute Units (ECUs). The following table puts the new
c1.medium
and
c1.xlarge
instances in perspective:
| Name | ECUs | Memory | Storage | Platform | Hourly Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m1.small | 1 | 1.7 GB | 160 GB | 32-bit | 10¢ |
| c1.medium | 5 | 1.7 GB | 350 GB | 32-bit | 20¢ |
| m1.large | 4 | 7.5 GB | 850 GB | 64-bit | 40¢ |
| c1.xlarge | 20 | 7 GB | 1690 GB | 64-bit | 80¢ |
| m1.xlarge | 8 | 15 GB | 1690 GB | 64-bit | 80¢ |
For a more detailed overview of the instance types available in EC2, see the Instance Types section in the service’s API documentation.