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If you're aware of the particulars of how they work, why are t2 instances not a production instance type?

• user5994461 10y ago
  Because t2 are NOT production instances. They are cheap, overrallocated, burstable instances with a low quota of CPU usage (about 10% for a t2.micro). They can burst over the quota for short period of time and they can be interrupted for short period of time. In short, the instance can pause anytime and stop processing traffic. Try running a production database on that see where it gets you ;)
  • cthalupa 10y ago
    If you're using a t2 instance for a heavily used production database that has a relatively steady amount of traffic, then you obviously don't understand the use case for it. There are plenty of production workloads that are burst based in nature, and for those, t2's make plenty of sense. The micro is also hardly the only instance in the family - if you go to the opposite end, the t2.large has a baseline of 60%. They also are not interrupted or paused, so I don't know where you're getting that. If you run out of credits your performance is throttled to baseline gradually over 15 minutes. t2s are fine for production if you understand their strengths - workloads with low levels of constant usage and periodic bursts of higher resource utilization. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/t2-instances.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/t2-instan...