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Web or API server Stateless, scales out Database Memory and fast disk Cache Redis, Memcached CI and batch jobs Bursty, retry-safe Model inference Serve a 7–13B model Model training Multi-GPU, big VRAM

CPU at least 4 vCPU

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Any Arm (Graviton) x86 only

For these needs Arm is 12% cheaper than x86. Pick x86 if you run Windows or x86-only binaries.

Network (EBS) is fine Fast local NVMe

Not sure A year or more Three years

339 instances meet your needs in N. Virginia, priced on-demand.

r Memory

6 Generation 6

g Graviton (Arm)

d Local NVMe

xlarge 4 vCPU · 32 GiB

$168/mo

$0.2304 an hour

4 vCPU Graviton2

32 GiB 8 GiB per vCPU

237 GB NVMe Local disk

Up to 10 Gbps Network

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