aws instance types

General Purpose (T2, M3, M4 class):

These provides overall balance of Ram, CPU and provide burstable performance.
IOP starts from 100 and upto 3000.

Compute Optimized (C3 and C4 class):

It is meant for hude traffic.

Storage Optimized(I3  and D2 class):

It is for large datawarehouse.

Memory Optimized(X1, R3 and R4 class):

It is for Memcached and enterprise apps.

Accelerated Computing(P2, G3 and F1 class):

It is for general-purpose GPU compute applications,graphics-intensive applications and FPGAs.