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Resize an instance

Resize an instance

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Resize an instance

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- [Instructor] In some of the earlier videos, I've mentioned that the instance that I have running right now performs inadequately for running any sort of production workloads. So what would we do if we needed to change this instances level of performance and allocate more hardware resources to it? What we would need to do is to change the instance type. So let's take a look at how to do that. I'm going to begin by clicking on the instance ID. And you can see that the instance type just above my mouse pointer is t2.micro, which is really only suitable for demonstration. If you want to run any sort of production workload at all, you're going to need a larger instance type. Now, if I were to click on Actions, and then go to Instance settings, you'll notice that there is an option to change the instance type, but it's grayed out. And the reason why that's grayed out is because the instance is running, you can't change an instance's type while the instance is running. So let's go ahead…

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