AWS Data Pipeline is no longer available to new customers. Existing customers of AWS Data Pipeline can continue to use the service as normal. [Learn more](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/migrate-workloads-from-aws-data-pipeline/)

# Default Amazon EC2 Instances by AWS Region
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If you do not specify an instance type in your pipeline definition, AWS Data Pipeline launches an instance by default. 

The following table lists the Amazon EC2 instances that AWS Data Pipeline uses by default in those Regions where AWS Data Pipeline is supported. 


| Region Name | Region | Instance Type | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| US East (N. Virginia) | us-east-1 | m1.small | 
| US West (Oregon) | us-west-2 | m1.small | 
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | ap-southeast-2 | m1.small | 
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | ap-northeast-1 | m1.small | 
| EU (Ireland) | eu-west-1 | m1.small | 

The following table lists the Amazon EC2 instances that AWS Data Pipeline launches by default in those Regions where AWS Data Pipeline is not supported. 


| Region Name | Region | Instance Type | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| US East (Ohio) | us-east-2 | t2.small | 
| US West (N. California) | us-west-1 | m1.small | 
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | ap-south-1 | t2.small | 
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | ap-southeast-1 | m1.small | 
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) | ap-northeast-2 | t2.small | 
| Canada (Central) | ca-central-1 | t2.small | 
| EU (Frankfurt) | eu-central-1 | t2.small | 
| EU (London) | eu-west-2 | t2.small | 
| EU (Paris) | eu-west-3 | t2.small | 
| South America (São Paulo) | sa-east-1 | m1.small | 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Data Pipeline. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query datapipeline` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).