Supported Instance Types

The following table describes the instance types that Amazon EMR supports. For more information, see Amazon EC2 Instances and Amazon Linux AMI Instance Type Matrix.

Not all instance types are available in all regions. If you create a cluster using an instance type that is not available, your cluster may fail to provision or may be stuck provisioning. For information about instance availability, see the Amazon EC2 Pricing Page, click the link for your instance purchasing option, and filter by Region to see if the instance type you select from the list below is available in the region.

Beginning with Amazon EMR release version 5.13.0, all instances use HVM virtualization and EBS-backed storage for root volumes. When using Amazon EMR release versions earlier than 5.13.0, some previous generation instances use PVM virtualization. These are indicated in the table. For more information, see Linux AMI Virtualization Types.

Some instance types support enhanced networking. For more information, see Enhanced Networking on Linux.

Amazon EMR supports Previous Generation Instances to support applications that are optimized for these instances and have not yet been upgraded. For more information about these instance types and upgrade paths, see Previous Generation Instances.

Instance Class	Instance Types
General purpose	m1.medium¹ | m1.large¹ | m1.xlarge¹ | m2.xlarge¹ | m2.2xlarge¹ | m2.4xlarge¹ | m3.xlarge¹ | m3.2xlarge¹ | m4.large | m4.xlarge | m4.2xlarge | m4.4xlarge | m4.10xlarge | m4.16xlarge | m5.xlarge³ | m5.2xlarge³ | m5.4xlarge³ | m5.8xlarge³ | m5.12xlarge³ | m5.16xlarge³ | m5.24xlarge³ | m5a.xlarge | m5a.2xlarge | m5a.4xlarge | m5a.8xlarge | m5a.12xlarge | m5a.16xlarge | m5a.24xlarge | m5d.xlarge³ | m5d.2xlarge³ | m5d.4xlarge³ | m5d.8xlarge³ | m5d.12xlarge³ | m5d.16xlarge³ | m5d.24xlarge³ Note m5a-series instances are available when using Amazon EMR version 5.20.0 and later.
Compute optimized	c1.medium¹ ² | c1.xlarge¹ | c3.xlarge¹ | c3.2xlarge¹ | c3.4xlarge¹ | c3.8xlarge¹ | c4.large | c4.xlarge | c4.2xlarge | c4.4xlarge | c4.8xlarge | c5.xlarge³ | c5.2xlarge³ | c5.4xlarge³ | c5.9xlarge³ | c5.12xlarge³ | c5.18xlarge³ | c5.24xlarge³ | c5d.xlarge³ | c5d.2xlarge³ | c5d.4xlarge³ | c5d.9xlarge³ | c5d.18xlarge³ | c5n.xlarge | c5n.2xlarge | c5n.4xlarge | c5n.9xlarge | c5n.18xlarge | cc2.8xlarge | z1d.xlarge | z1d.2xlarge | z1d.3xlarge | z1d.6xlarge | z1d.12xlarge Note c5n-series instances are available when using Amazon EMR version 5.20.0 and later.
Memory optimized	r3.xlarge | r3.2xlarge | r3.4xlarge | r3.8xlarge | r4.xlarge | r4.2xlarge | r4.4xlarge | r4.8xlarge | r4.16xlarge | r5.xlarge³ | r5.2xlarge³ | r5.4xlarge³ | r5.8xlarge³ | r5.12xlarge³ | r5.16xlarge³ | r5.24xlarge³ | r5a.xlarge | r5a.2xlarge | r5a.4xlarge | r5a.8xlarge | r5a.12xlarge | r5a.16xlarge | r5a.24xlarge | r5d.xlarge³ | r5d.2xlarge³ | r5d.4xlarge³ | r5d.8xlarge³ | r5d.12xlarge³ | r5d.16xlarge³ | r5d.24xlarge³ | cr1.8xlarge Note r5a-series instances are available when using Amazon EMR version 5.20.0 and later.
Storage optimized	h1.2xlarge | h1.4xlarge | h1.8xlarge | h1.8xlarge | hs1.8xlarge¹ | i2.xlarge | i2.2xlarge | i2.4xlarge | i2.8xlarge | i3.xlarge | i3.2xlarge | i3.4xlarge | i3.8xlarge | i3.16xlarge | i3en.xlarge |i3en.2xlarge |i3en.3xlarge |i3en.6xlarge |i3en.12xlarge |i3en.24xlarge |d2.xlarge | d2.2xlarge | d2.4xlarge | d2.8xlarge Note i3-series instances are available when using Amazon EMR version 5.9.0 and later. i3en-series instances are available when using Amazon EMR version 5.25.0 and later.
GPU instances	cg1.4xlarge | g2.2xlarge | g3.4xlarge | g3.8xlarge | g3.16xlarge | g3s.xlarge | p2.xlarge | p2.8xlarge | p2.16xlarge | p3.2xlarge | p3.8xlarge | p3.16xlarge Note NVIDIA and CUDA drivers are installed on P2 and P3 instance types by default.

¹Uses PVM virtualization AMI with Amazon EMR release versions earlier than 5.13.0. For more information, see Linux AMI Virtualization Types.

²Not supported in release version 5.15.0.

³Supported in release version 5.13.0 and later.