# Would like to know which type of AWS EC2 instance is suitable for elasticsearch data nodes

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/would-like-to-know-which-type-of-aws-ec2-instance-is-suitable-for-elasticsearch-data-nodes/194962
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 13, 2019, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/would-like-to-know-which-type-of-aws-ec2-instance-is-suitable-for-elasticsearch-data-nodes/194962 "2019-08-13T06:26:04Z")
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### Author: ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2019, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/would-like-to-know-which-type-of-aws-ec2-instance-is-suitable-for-elasticsearch-data-nodes/194962/1 "2019-08-13T06:26:04Z")

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Would like to know which type of AWS EC2 instance is suitable for installing the elasticsearch data node. I know that i3 instances are suitable as they support high IOPS with instance storage (SSD), in our case data volume is very less and no replica shards.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2019, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/would-like-to-know-which-type-of-aws-ec2-instance-is-suitable-for-elasticsearch-data-nodes/194962/2 "2019-09-10T06:26:07Z")

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