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Image Name: Ubuntu 1416.04
5. Click “Access & Security” tab within the Launch Instance field, and select the <key_pair_name> created earlier in the tutorial. The default security group should be checked as well.
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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
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.
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