EC2 instance types and sizes

• AWS categorizes ec2 instances by its purposes
  
• Each purpose has some families associated with it like M, C5, t2, t3 …
  
• M5 Refer Here
• Naming convention Refer Here

Activity

• Create an ubuntu 22.04 instance with size t2.micro in any region
  
• stop the ec2 instance
  
• Resize to t2.nano
  
  
• Now start the instance to use the system
• This activity is referred as vertical scaling.
• AWS allows to increase as well as decrease the sizes, this is called as elasticity.
• Technical term: scale up or down