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Chapter 3. Identify a suitable Red Hat AMI

3.1. Supported instance types

JBoss Cloud Access supports a subset of the instance types available on Amazon EC2, full details of

which can be found in Amazon's User Guide for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Choose from the

following instance types according to your requirements:

Supported Instance Types

Standard Inst ance

Have memory-to-CPU ratios suitable for most general-purpose applications.

High Memory Instance

Have proportionally more memory resources and are well suited for high throughput

applications, such as database and memory caching applications.

High CPU Instance

Have proportionally more CPU resources than memory (RAM) and are well suited for compute-

intensive applications.

The instance type "Micro (t1.micro)" is not suitable for deployment of JBoss Enterprise Application

Platform.

3.2. Finding the Red Hat AMIs

Red Hat's AMIs are identified by their AMI Name which is formatted as:

OperatingSystem-OperatingSystemVersion-JBossProduct-JBossProductVersion-Architecture-

CreationDate.

OperatingSystem

RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

OperatingSystemVersion

6.2

JBossProduct

JBEAP (JBoss Enterprise Application Platform) or JBEWS (JBoss Enterprise Web Server)

JBossProductVersion

5.2.0

Architecture

x86_64 or i386

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