[JCLOUDS-1440] Add support for r5 instance types in AWS ec2

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.3
• Component/s: jclouds-compute
• Labels: aws-ec2

Docs Text

Amazon recently introduced a new set of price-performance-optimized EC2 instance types (r5.*).
R5 instances offer "Fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory".
Details here: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/r5/

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

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vikas Rangarajan
• Created: 13/Aug/18 18:14
• Updated: 06/Feb/19 20:24

Description

As a jclouds client targeting AWS EC2 as one of the deployment cloud providers, I would like to avail of the newly added r5 instance types that offer "Fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory".