AWS resources supported by Compute Optimizer

This chapter outlines the AWS resources that Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for. It also provides you with the specific resource types supported by Compute Optimizer.

AWS Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for the following AWS resources:

Supported Amazon EC2 instance types

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for several instance types. You can run unsupported instance types in addition to supported types. However, Compute Optimizer only generates recommendations for supported instances. Not all instance types are available in every AWS Region that Compute Optimizer is available in. To determine the supported Regions for each of these instance types, see Finding an Amazon EC2 instance type in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

The following table lists the EC2 instance types that are supported by Compute Optimizer.

Supported Amazon EBS volume types

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for the following EBS volume types that are attached to an instance:

Compute Optimizer also generates recommendations to move your data out from previous generation HDD Magnetic volumes. For more information, see Amazon EBS previous generation volumes.

Supported Amazon RDS databases

The following sections outline the Amazon RDS resources supported by Compute Optimizer.

Database engines

Compute Optimizer Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for Amazon RDS databases running the following engines:

RDS DB instances

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for several RDS DB instance types. Not all instance types are available in every AWS Region that Compute Optimizer is available in. To determine the supported Regions for each of these instance types, see DB instance classes in the Amazon Relational Database Service User Guide.

The following tables list the RDS DB instance types for the databases that are supported by Compute Optimizer.

Amazon RDS

The RDS DB instance types for the RDS for MySQL and RDS for PostgreSQL database engines supported by Compute Optimizer.

DB instance class family	Type
General purpose	db.m7g | db.m6g | db.m6i | db.m5 | db.m3 | db.m1 | db.m2 | db.m5d | db.m6gd | db.m6i
Memory-optimized R family	db.r3 | db.r4 | db.r5 | db.r5b | db.r5d | db.r6g | db.r6gd | db.r6i | db.r7g
Burstable-performance	db.t3 | db.t4g
Memory-optimized Z family	db.x2g | db.x2idn | db.x2iedn

Amazon Aurora

The DB instance types for the Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition database engines supported by Compute Optimizer.

DB instance class family	Type
Memory-optimized R family	db.r4 | db.r5 | db.r6g | db.r6i | db.r7g
Memory-optimized X family	db.x2g
Burstable-performance	db.t2 | db.t3 | db.t4g
Optimized Reads	db.r6gd | db.r6id

Note

Compute Optimizer doesn't support db.serverless – Aurora Serverless v2 instance class with automatic capacity scaling.

For more information, see DB instance class types in the Amazon Aurora User Guide for Aurora.

RDS DB instance storage

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for the following RDS DB instance storage volume types:

Additional resources