In AWS Why do we recommend minimum required instance-type as xlarge and not large. For e.g m5.xlarge is preferred over m5.large

[Guest Farhan Ali]

In AWS Why do we recommend minimum required instance-type as xlarge and not large. For e.g m5.xlarge is preferred over m5.large

[Guest Farhan Ali]

M5.large support 2vCPU and M5.xlarge support 4vCPU and both support 3 Nic. The main reason m5.xlarge is preferred is because hyperthreading is possible in the m5.xlarge instance.

[Justin Weldon]

More specifically, with 2 vCPU you are limited to a single packet engine, whereas the m5.xlarge can support up to three.