# Which EC2 instance type is best suited for large volume streaming

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**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 9, 2014, 8:44am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/which-ec2-instance-type-is-best-suited-for-large-volume-streaming/35264 "2014-02-09T08:44:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johan\_Niemi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Johan\_Niemi](https://community.wowza.com/u/Johan_Niemi)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/which-ec2-instance-type-is-best-suited-for-large-volume-streaming/35264/2 "2014-02-10T01:55:45Z")

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[c3.8xlarge](http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/) probably, mainly because of a good mix of high performance CPU’s, good amount of memory, SSD storage and 10 GbE.

For better value though, I would load balance between a number of cheaper instances (like the c1.medium) instead.

A c1.medium instance comes at 1/16 the price of a c3.8xlarge, but it will allow for over half the througput (~0,95 Gbps) of the expensive [c3.8xlarge 10 GbE instance (~1,7 Gbps).](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/39466)

For the saved files, I would script those to be moved to a S3 bucket after ended broadcasts.

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