[JCLOUDS-1372] Add support for R4 instance types in AWS ec2

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0, 2.1.1
• Component/s: jclouds-compute
• Labels: aws-ec2

Docs Text

Amazon recently introduced a new set memory-optimized EC2 instance types (r4.*). These instances improve upon the popular R3 instances with a larger L3 cache and faster memory. On the network side, they support up to 20 Gbps of ENA-powered network bandwidth when used within a Placement Group, along with 12 Gbps of dedicated throughput to EBS.
Details here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-next-generation-r4-memory-optimized-ec2-instances/

Full list of supported instance types: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vikas Rangarajan
• Created: 10/Jan/18 18:22
• Updated: 01/Aug/18 00:14
• Resolved: 16/Jan/18 11:59

Description

As a jclouds client targeting AWS EC2 as one of the deployment cloud providers, I would like to avail of the newly added R4 instance types that are memory optimized but more cost-effective than the previous generation R3 instance types.

Issue Links

• is cloned by: JCLOUDS-1387 Add support for c5 instance types in AWS ec2