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M1 class flavors are General Purpose Instances. This family provides a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and it is a good choice for many applications.
Flavor VCPUs Root Disk (GB) RAM (MB) Swap (MB) m1.tiny 1 5 512 512 m1.micro 1 5 1,024 1,024 m1.small 2 20 2,048 2,048 m1.medium 2 40 4,096 4,096 m1.large 4 40 8,192 4,096 m1.xlarge 8 40 16,384 4,096 G1 instances are intended for general-purpose GPU compute applications. Use cases include machine learning, rendering, and other server-side GPU compute workloads. (see GPU-Enabled Instances for more on how to launch GPU instances.)
Flavor VCPUs Root Disk (GB) RAM (MB) Swap (MB) g1.medium.auto-destruct 8 40 8,192 4,096 g1.large.auto-destruct 8 40 32,768 4,096 g1.xlarge.auto-destruct 16 40 32,768 4,096
Resizing instances
Currently the option to resize instances (change flavor) is not functional in RAC. A workaround ti to snapshot an instance and then create a new instance of the desired flavor based on the snapshot.
Accessing instances
Having an instance up and running is one thing, and perhaps just a single Linux ‘sandbox’ to run some code is all that is needed, however the real power of computers, virtual or otherwise, is in connectivity, and that means networks. The instances in the Rapid Access Cloud can be connected to and accessed in a variety of ways, permitting users to create an environment with multiple instances networked together in the same way a bare-metal environment can be built, but in this case with virtual machines providing the routing, switching and other network functions along with the expected servers running applications on top of operating systems like Linux and Windows. In the RAC web client there is an option to access your instance via a web console. Windows instances can be accessed with the console. Linux instances will prompt for a password and can not be accessed via the console without first logging into the instance (SSH) to configure a password. For this reason it is recommended to only use SSH and a private key to access a Linux instances. Create a keypair before creating a Linux instance then when creating a Linux instance, assign the key for access. See this page for instructions on how to create a key pair.
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