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I'm AWS free-tier user and planning to Use AWS EC2 & EBS as a personal web development server. I will be using this machine 100 hours max in a month. Will be stopping and starting the EC2 instance. What will be the best configuration for EC2/EBS for running development ENV for good performance? Would I be able changes EC2 instance after setup?

Development Environment

  • Ubuntu
  • Ruby
  • Python
  • Nodejs
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Vscode
  • database server
  • Remote Desktop Client -> VNC

EC2 Instance

Amazon EC2 A1 instances T3 instances T3a instances T2 instances EBS Volume

  • General Purpose SSD (gp2)
  • Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)
  • Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)
  • Cold HDD (sc1)
Mukesh
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Start with a t3.micro and GP2. Then once you're using it you can stop the instance and change instance type as demand requires.

Chris Williams
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