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The following table describes the hardware and software configuration details of an Amazon EC2 instance that is used as APEX Block Storage SDS instances:
Table 4. APEX Block Storage SDS instances for Amazon instance store
Hardware | Configuration |
EC2 instance type | i3en.12xlarge |
vCPUs | 48 (3.1 GHz all core turbo 1st or 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake or Cascade Lake) processors) |
Memory (GiB) | 384 |
Instance Storage (GB) | 4 x 7500 NVMe SSD |
Network Bandwidth (Gbps) | 50 |
Software | Version |
Operating system (AMI) | RHEL 8.4 |
PowerFlex SDS | 4.5 |