# What type of instance type is best Suited for running Neo4J in AWS

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**Category:** Server\
**Tags:** performance, aws\
**Created:** [August 10, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/what-type-of-instance-type-is-best-suited-for-running-neo4j-in-aws/23231 "2020-08-10T20:06:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![george4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/george4/32/4750_2.png) [@george4](https://community.neo4j.com/u/george4)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/what-type-of-instance-type-is-best-suited-for-running-neo4j-in-aws/23231/1 "2020-08-10T20:06:06Z")

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Hi All

What type of instance type will give best performance for running Neo4J in AWS .

General Purpose  
Compute Optimized  
Memory Optimized  
Accelerated Computing  
?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![kevin.oosterhout](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/kevin.oosterhout/32/204_2.png) [@kevin.oosterhout](https://community.neo4j.com/u/kevin.oosterhout)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/what-type-of-instance-type-is-best-suited-for-running-neo4j-in-aws/23231/2 "2020-08-11T06:32:05Z")

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Hi,

There isn't a straight forward answer to the question except for "it depends".

Could you describe your dataset? The size, eg amount of nodes, relationships, if you already have it running locally database size.  
And the workload is ofcoures a factor in sizing. If you're quering a lot you might need some more cpu power.

There is ofcourse the hardware calculator: [Graph Database Sizing Calculator | Neo4j Hardware Sizing Calculator](https://neo4j.com/hardware-sizing/)

And there is ofcourse also Neo4j Aura. This is fully managed and redundant.

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**Author:** ![george4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/george4/32/4750_2.png) [@george4](https://community.neo4j.com/u/george4)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/what-type-of-instance-type-is-best-suited-for-running-neo4j-in-aws/23231/3 "2020-08-11T11:25:18Z")

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Neo4j DB size 14.5GB  
Node: 1148715  
Relationship: 6133991

The version we are stilling using is version 2.2.2

The reason i asked this specific question was , our Infra Team Suggested that the compute instance gave better performance , than a General Purpose instance and was wondering , whether different type of instance have any performance impact on neo4j