Best AWS EC2 Instance by Workload
Hand-picked EC2 instance recommendations for common workloads, with budget, standard, and scale tiers. Each guide pulls live pricing from CloudBench's pricing index and links through to the full instance page for deeper specs and benchmarks.
Best EC2 for Laravel
Recommended: t4g.large
Recommended EC2 instance for Laravel: t4g.large at ~$50/mo. Budget, standard, and scale alternatives compared. Sysbench benchmarks + live pricing.
Best EC2 for Django
Recommended: t4g.large
Recommended EC2 instance for Django: t4g.large for most projects, m6i.large for high-traffic. Comparison with budget and scale alternatives.
Best EC2 for Node.js
Recommended: t4g.medium
Recommended EC2 instance for Node.js: t4g.medium for most apps. Why Graviton wins for V8 workloads, plus budget and scale tiers.
Best EC2 for PostgreSQL
Recommended: r6i.large
Recommended EC2 instances for self-hosted PostgreSQL. Why r-series memory-optimized wins, with budget, standard, and scale tiers.
Best EC2 for WordPress
Recommended: t4g.small
Recommended EC2 instance for WordPress: t3.small or t4g.small for most sites. Live pricing, caching strategy, and scale alternatives.
Best EC2 for ML inference
Recommended: g5.xlarge
Most cost-effective EC2 instances for ML inference: Inferentia (inf2) for transformer models, g5 for general GPU, c-series for small CPU models.
Best EC2 for CI/CD runners
Recommended: t4g.large
Cheapest EC2 instances for self-hosted CI/CD runners: t3a.large or t4g.large + Spot. Up to 70% cheaper than GitHub-hosted runners.
Best EC2 for Kubernetes worker nodes
Recommended: m7g.large
Recommended EC2 instances for EKS or self-hosted Kubernetes worker nodes. Why m-series wins, plus Graviton and scale alternatives.