> T2 are awful for production websites with sustained high traffic I mean, their entire purpose and value proposition is explicitly based on not needing to sup

> T2 are awful for production websites with sustained high traffic I mean, their entire purpose and value proposition is explicitly based on not needing to support sustained high traffic. This is not something that needs to be learned the hard way. You don't even need to RTFM, you just need to read the first sentence of the first Google result snippet: > T2 instances are low-cost, General Purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline. In fact, they are even explicitly labeled as "burstable performance instances" as you suggest in the first five words of the first paragraph of the first Google result for "aws t2": https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#burst https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#burst