Introducing support for Amazon EC2 M5d and R5d instances on Elastic Cloud
Blog post from Elastic
On July 1, 2020, Elastic Cloud announced the support for Amazon EC2 M5d and R5d instances across all AWS regions, enhancing performance and flexibility for various workloads. The M5d instances offer a balanced combination of compute, memory, and networking resources ideal for tasks like Elastic App Search and Elasticsearch machine learning nodes, while R5d instances are optimized for handling large data sets in memory, suitable for application performance monitoring and Kibana. Both instance types support locally attached NVMe SSD drives, providing superior disk performance compared to EBS General Purpose GP2 SSD volumes, with the option to either launch new deployments or migrate existing ones through a straightforward snapshot and restore process. Elastic Cloud provides deployment templates to streamline hardware selection, ensuring configurations are tailored to workload requirements, and encourages users to explore these new capabilities through their migration documentation and a free 14-day trial.