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AWS basic Concepts

Naming Convention

Databases

Type

Name Purpose Comment
db.m General
db.z Memory Fixed CPU frequency: 4GHz
db.x Memory
db.r Memory
db.c compute
db.t burstable

Generation

Next digit, incremental.

Name Generation
db.m5 Five
db.z6 Sixth
db.x7 Seventh

Processor

Next letter, as:

Name Processor
db.m6g Graviton2
db.m7g Graviton3
db.m6i Intel
db.m6 Coffee maker (unknown)

Amazon RDS storage types

Name Type
io1 Provisioned IOPS SSD
io2 Provisioned IOPS SSD
gp2 General Purpose SSD
gp3 General Purpose SSD
standard magnetic