Hardware
Instance type
Quick answer
An instance type is a cloud provider's named combination of vCPU, memory, storage and network capacity.
An instance type is a cloud provider's named combination of vCPU, memory, storage and network capacity.
Why it matters
For CI the storage class usually matters more than the CPU count. An instance family with local NVMe will beat a larger one with network-attached disk on most real pipelines.
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