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title: Choosing a hardware profile on AWS
description: While far from being a comprehensive guide for performance tuning, the following advice is provided for selecting the hot tier instance configuration:...
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/cloud/cloud-hosted/ec_selecting_the_right_configuration_for_you
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted: Generally available
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# Choosing a hardware profile on AWS
While far from being a comprehensive guide for performance tuning, the following advice is provided for selecting the hot tier instance configuration:

| Deployment template                 | Hot data tier instance configuration | Notes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Storage Optimized                   | aws.es.datahot.i3                    | Good for most ingestion use cases with 7-10 days of data available for fast access. Also good for light search use cases without heavy indexing or CPU needs.                                                                                                         |
| Storage Optimized (ARM)             | aws.es.datahot.i8g                   | Good for most ingestion use cases with 7-10 days of data available for fast access. Also good for light search use cases without heavy indexing or CPU needs.                                                                                                         |
| Storage Optimized (Dense)           | aws.es.datahot.i3en                  | Ideal for ingestion use cases with more than 10 days of data available for fast access. Also, good for light search use cases with very large data sets.                                                                                                              |
| CPU Optimized                       | aws.es.datahot.c5d                   | Suitable for ingestion use cases with 1-4 days of data available for fast access and for search use cases with indexing and querying workloads. Provides the most CPU resources per unit of RAM.                                                                      |
| CPU Optimized (ARM)                 | aws.es.datahot.c8gd                  | Suitable for ingestion use cases with 1-4 days of data available for fast access and for search use cases with indexing and querying workloads. Provides the most CPU resources per unit of RAM.                                                                      |
| Vector Search - CPU Optimized (ARM) | aws.es.datahot.search.c8gd           | Optimized for applications that leverage Vector Search and/or Generative AI. Also the optimal choice for utilizing ELSER for semantic search applications. Broadly suitable for all semantic search, text embedding, image search, and other Vector Search use cases. |
| General Purpose                     | aws.es.datahot.m5d                   | Suitable for ingestion use cases with 5-7 days of data available for fast access. Also good for search workloads with less-frequent indexing and medium to high querying loads. Provides a balance of storage, memory, and CPU.                                       |
| General Purpose (ARM)               | aws.es.datahot.m6gd                  | Suitable for ingestion use cases with 5-7 days of data available for fast access. Also good for search workloads with less-frequent indexing and medium to high querying loads. Provides a balance of storage, memory, and CPU.                                       |