It's not just you, AWS is something you have to get used to. If you really plan to get into it I recommend trying a course on udemy to learn about all the different service available.
Back to your specific case:
The way machines in AWS work (and EC2 specifically) is they have an intended purpose category (t for general purpose, r for memory optimized, c for compute), they have the generation (3, 4, 5) and they have the size (large, xlarge, 24xlarge).
All of these factors affect the pricing, for example for a machine used in our MemSQL cluster I'd choose a memory optimized one (cause MemSQL sits in the RAM), but for a "utils" server used to manage some service I'd take a general purpose one. If I'd take a compute machine for Mem, I'd have to pay for a huge one to get to the amounts of memory I need.
In general it's advised to use the latest generation available in the region you picked, it's usually cheaper.
My rule of thumb is this: pick the smallest machine I can get away in the latest generation. The beauty about cloud computing is that you can upgrade or downgrade your machines as you go, you don't have to commit to a single size or type from the beginning (hence the name Elastic Compute Cloud)
I don't really use the budget tool, I find it unintuitive. I use the pricing page for each service I use and try to estimate the costs. I'm lucky that I work in a relatively large company with people that work in cost optimization and can help me understand it better if there's an issue.
If you have any specific issues or questions you can send me a PM and I'll try to help as best as I can (:
Thank you for your response. It cleared some things up for me. What I personally got out of that was "general purpose" is probably the way to go. lol! I appreciate your willingness to help!
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It's not just you, AWS is something you have to get used to. If you really plan to get into it I recommend trying a course on udemy to learn about all the different service available.
Back to your specific case:
The way machines in AWS work (and EC2 specifically) is they have an intended purpose category (t for general purpose, r for memory optimized, c for compute), they have the generation (3, 4, 5) and they have the size (large, xlarge, 24xlarge).
All of these factors affect the pricing, for example for a machine used in our MemSQL cluster I'd choose a memory optimized one (cause MemSQL sits in the RAM), but for a "utils" server used to manage some service I'd take a general purpose one. If I'd take a compute machine for Mem, I'd have to pay for a huge one to get to the amounts of memory I need.
In general it's advised to use the latest generation available in the region you picked, it's usually cheaper.
My rule of thumb is this: pick the smallest machine I can get away in the latest generation. The beauty about cloud computing is that you can upgrade or downgrade your machines as you go, you don't have to commit to a single size or type from the beginning (hence the name Elastic Compute Cloud)
I don't really use the budget tool, I find it unintuitive. I use the pricing page for each service I use and try to estimate the costs. I'm lucky that I work in a relatively large company with people that work in cost optimization and can help me understand it better if there's an issue.
If you have any specific issues or questions you can send me a PM and I'll try to help as best as I can (:
Thank you for your response. It cleared some things up for me. What I personally got out of that was "general purpose" is probably the way to go. lol! I appreciate your willingness to help!