Supported AWS EC2 instance types

The Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) is a web service that provides virtual servers in the cloud. You deploy supported Data Loss Prevention detection servers to EC2 instances.
EC2 instances can be provisioned in three different ways: on demand, reserved, and spot. On demand and reserved EC2 instances guarantee performance corresponding with the specifications of the Amazon machine image (AMI) provided by the instance. EC2 spot instances, on the other hand, allow users to bid on unused EC2 capacity at a lower price. Spot instances are only appropriate for the tasks that can withstand frequent or intermittent interruption. Your detection servers must run without foreseeable interruption. As such,
Symantec Data Loss Prevention
does not support the use of EC2 spot instances for your Data Loss Prevention on AWS deployments.
Figure 1 shows the EC2 instance details.
No support for EC2 Spot Instances
AWS provides various types of EC2 instances. For example, there are t2.* instance types, m3.* instance types, c3* instance types, and more. In addition, for each EC2 instance type there are various sizes (micro, small, medium, and large). Be aware that t2.* instance types, including micro, small, and medium, are Burstable Performance Instances (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/). Because the baseline CPU performance for t2.* burstable performance instances are only allocated a small percentage of a single CPU core,
Symantec Data Loss Prevention
does not recommend the use of t2.* instances for detection server deployments on AWS. You may use a t2.* instance type for deploying a data source host, such as a Discover scan target or server, but you should not use t2.micro. You may use t2.small or t2.medium to host a data source.
To summarize, the following EC2 instance types are not supported or recommended:
  • EC2 spot instances are not supported for any Data Loss Prevention on an AWS deployment.
  • t2.micro instances are not supported for the Data Loss Prevention detection server on AWS deployments.
  • t2.small and t2.medium instances are not recommended, but may be used to host Data Loss Prevention data sources, such as Discover scan targets.
Figure 2 shows some of the various EC2 instance types.
Symantec Data Loss Prevention
does not recommend the use of t2.* instances types for deploying detection servers on AWS.
EC2 instance types