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Instance Type and AMI Selection

Log in to your the AWS management console . The login URL may depend on your organization, but it is likey at: https://console.aws.amazon.com

Click on EC2

Switch to the region you will intended deploy Flow. For this tutorial, we will be using This tutorial uses US East (N. Virginia) as an example. 

On the left menu, click on Instances, then click the Lauch Launch Instance button. You will be brought to the The first step denoted "Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)" appears.

Click the Select button next to "Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-f4cc1de2"

For the next step "called Choose an Instance Type" the selection depends on your budget and the size of the Flow deployment. We recommend m4.large for testing or cluster front-end operation, m4.xlarge for standard deployments, and m4.2xlarge for alignment-heavy workloads with a large user-base. See (the section AWS instance type resources and costs ) for assistance with choosing the right instance. In most cases, the instance type and associated resources can be changed after deployment, so one is not locked in to the choices made for this step.  

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We do not recommend placing any data on "instance store" volumes since all data is lost on those volumes after an instance stops. This is too risky as there are cases where user tasks can take up unexpected amounts of memory forcing a server stop/reboot.

Latest (April 2017) EC2 instance costs:

AWS Instance Type Resources and Costs

The values below were updated April 2017. The latest pricing and EC2 resource offerings can be found at http://www.ec2instances.info

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