AWS resources supported by Compute Optimizer

This chapter outlines the AWS resources that Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for. It also provides you with the specific resource types supported by Compute Optimizer.

AWS Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for the following AWS resources:

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances

  Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for many Amazon EC2 instance types. For more information about the specific instance types that Compute Optimizer supports, see Supported Amazon EC2 instance types.

• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups

  Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups. For more information, see Supported Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups.

• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes

  Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for various EBS volume types. For more information about the specific EBS volume types that Compute Optimizer supports, see Supported Amazon EBS volume types.

• AWS Lambda functions

  Compute Optimizer generates memory size recommendations for Lambda functions that meet specific requirements. For more information, see Lambda function requirements.

• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) services on AWS Fargate

  Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for Amazon ECS services on Fargate that meet specific requirements. For more information, see Requirements for Amazon ECS services on Fargate.

• Commercial software licenses

  Compute Optimizer generates license recommendations for Microsoft SQL Servers on Amazon EC2 that meet specific requirements. For more information, see Commercial software license requirements.

• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) DB instances and storage

  Compute Optimizer generates RDS DB instances and RDS DB instance storage recommendations for RDS for MySQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon Aurora databases. For more information about the specific Amazon RDS resources supported by Compute Optimizer, see Supported Amazon RDS databases.

Note

In order to generate recommendations for each resource, the resources must meet Compute Optimizer's metric and resource-specific requirements. For a list of the requiremtents for each resource, see Resource requirements.

Supported Amazon EC2 instance types

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for the instance types listed in this section. The following table lists the EC2 instance types that are supported by Compute Optimizer.

Instance series	Instance family
C – Compute optimized	C1 | C3 | C4 | C5 | C5a | C5ad | C5d | C5n | C6a | C6g | C6gd | C6gn | C6i | C6in | C6id | C7a | C7g | C7gd | C7gn | C7i | C7i-flex | C8g
D – Dense storage	D2 | D3 | D3en
G – Graphics intensive	G4dn | G5g | G5 | G6 | Gr6 | G6e
Hpc – High performance computing	H1 | Hpc6a | Hpc6id | Hpc7a | Hpc7g
I – Storage optimized	I2 | I3 | I3en | I4g | I4i | I7ie | I8g | Im4gn | Is4gen
M – General purpose	M1 | M2 | M3 | M4 | M5 | M5a | M5ad | M5d | M5dn | M5n | M5zn | M6a | M6g | M6gd | M6i | M6id | M6idn | M6in | M7a | M7g | M7gd | M7i | M7i-flex | M8g
P – GPU accelerated	P3 | P4 | P4d | P4de | P5 | P5e | P5en
R – Memory optimized	R3 | R4 | R5 | R5a | R5ad | R5b | R5d | R5dn | R5n | R6a | R6g | R6gd | R6i | R6id | R6idn | R6in | R7a | R7g | R7gd | R7i | R7iz | R8g
T – Burstable performance	T1 | T2 | T3 | T3a | T4g
U – High memory	U-3tb1 | U-6tb1 | U-9tb1 | U-12tb1 | U-18tb1 | U-24tb1 | U7i-6tb | U7i-8tb | U7i-12tb | U7in-16tb | U7in-24tb | U7in-32tb
X – Memory intensive	X1 | X1e | X2gd | X2idn | X2iedn | X2iezn | X8g
Z – High memory	z1d

Note

• If an EC2 instance isn't listed, then it isn't supported by Compute Optimizer.

• Compute Optimizer doesn't generate EC2 rightsizing recommendations for Spot Instances.

Supported Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups

Compute Optimizer generates rightsizing and idle recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups. This section outlines what Compute Optimizer supports for both types of recommendations.

Rightsizing recommendations

Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing recommendations for the EC2 Auto Scaling groups that have the following:

• Single EC2 instance types

• Mixed EC2 instance types

• One or multiple scaling policies based on CPU utilization:

  • Target tracking

  • Predictive scaling

  • Simple scaling

  • Step scaling

• Scheduled scaling policies

• No scaling policy

Note

Compute Optimizer doesn't support EC2 Auto Scaling groups that have the following:

• Spot Instances

• G and P instance families

• ECS or EKS workloads

• Mixed instance types containing both AMD and Intel instances

• Mixed instance types that use instance weights

• Mixed instance types containing both x86 and Graviton instances

• Mixed instance types containing instances on different platforms, such as Windows, SQL Server, and Linux

Idle recommendations

Compute Optimizer supports idle recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups that use most of the Supported Amazon EC2 instance types, including those with EC2 Spot Instances. However, Compute Optimizer doesn't support idle recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups that use G and P instance families.

Supported Amazon EBS volume types

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for the following EBS volume types that are attached to an instance:

• HDD st1 and sc1

• General Purpose SSD gp2 and gp3

• Provisioned IOPS SSD io1, io2, and io2 Block Express

Compute Optimizer also generates recommendations to move your data out from previous generation HDD Magnetic volumes. For more information, see Amazon EBS previous generation volumes.

Supported Amazon RDS databases

The following sections outline the Amazon RDS resources supported by Compute Optimizer.

Database engines

Compute Optimizer Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for Amazon RDS databases running the following engines:

• RDS for MySQL

• RDS for PostgreSQL

• Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition

• Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition

RDS DB instances

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for several RDS DB instance types. To determine the supported Regions for each of these instance types, see DB instance classes in the Amazon Relational Database Service User Guide.

The following tables list the RDS DB instance types for the databases that are supported by Compute Optimizer.

Amazon RDS

The RDS DB instance types for the RDS for MySQL and RDS for PostgreSQL database engines supported by Compute Optimizer.

DB instance class family	Type
General purpose	db.m7g | db.m6g | db.m6i | db.m5 | db.m3 | db.m1 | db.m2 | db.m5d | db.m6gd | db.m6i
Memory-optimized R family	db.r3 | db.r4 | db.r5 | db.r5b | db.r5d | db.r6g | db.r6gd | db.r6i | db.r7g
Burstable-performance	db.t3 | db.t4g
Memory-optimized Z family	db.x2g | db.x2idn | db.x2iedn

Amazon Aurora

The DB instance types for the Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition database engines supported by Compute Optimizer.

DB instance class family	Type
Memory-optimized R family	db.r4 | db.r5 | db.r6g | db.r6i | db.r7g
Memory-optimized X family	db.x2g
Burstable-performance	db.t2 | db.t3 | db.t4g
Optimized Reads	db.r6gd | db.r6id

Note

Compute Optimizer doesn't support db.serverless – Aurora Serverless v2 instance class with automatic capacity scaling.

For more information, see DB instance class types in the Amazon Aurora User Guide for Aurora.

RDS DB instance storage

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for the following RDS DB instance storage volume types:

• General Purpose SSD gp2 and gp3

• Provisioned IOPS SSD io1

Note

Compute Optimizer doesn’t support recommendations for Aurora DB cluster storage.

Additional resources

• Resource requirements

• Metrics analyzed by AWS Compute Optimizer

• Getting started with AWS Compute Optimizer