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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. 

  RAM

  Flavor	VCPUs	Root Disk (GB)Ephemeral Disk	RAM (GBMB)	Total Disk (GB)	Swap (MB)
  m1.tiny	1	5	0512	5	512
  m1.micro	1	5	0	51,024	1,024
  m1.small	2	200	2,048	20	2,048
  m1.medium	2	40	0	404,096	4,096
  m1.large	440	0	40	8,192	4,096
  m1.xlarge	8	40	0	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.) 

  RAM (

  Flavor	VCPUs	Root Disk (GB)Ephemeral Disk	RAM (GBMB)	Total Disk (GB)	Swap (MB)
  g1.medium.auto-destruct	8	40	0	40	8,192	4,096
  g1.large.auto-destruct	8	40	0	40	32,768	4,096
  g1.xlarge.auto-destruct	16	400	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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