---
title: "New CPU Optimized and Memory Optimized Instance Types"
description: "Thanks to CPU and Memory Optimized Instances you can deploy on specialized solutions that enable improved cost/performance ratio for your workloads."
date: 2020-07-16
author: "Antoine Coetsier"
tags: ["compute"]
url: https://www.exoscale.com/blog/cpu-memory-instance-types-release/
---
# New CPU Optimized and Memory Optimized Instance Types

**Quick summary of this article**

- Exoscale launched CPU Optimized and Memory Optimized instance families now generally available to all customers.
- CPU Optimized instances double CPU cores and suit CI and CD pipelines, batch jobs, media encoding, and network appliances.
- CPU Optimized pricing increases only 25 percent compared with equivalent Standard instances.
- Memory Optimized instances provide higher memory per CPU and are 25 percent cheaper than Standard.
- Both new families are available in all zones and compatible with existing tools and integrations.

Two new families of Instance types are now generally available to all Exoscale customers: CPU Optimized and Memory Optimized Instance Types offer a specialized mix of memory and dedicated CPU resources to boost efficiency and performance-to-cost ratio of your workloads.

## CPU Optimized Instances

CPU Optimized Instances provide higher CPU-to-memory ratio than their Standard equivalent, resulting the best choice for CPU-intensive workloads like CI/CD servers, batch processing, media decoding and encoding, network appliances, and any application that requires increased computing capability.

CPU Optimized Instances come in the following configurations:

| CPU Optimized   | RAM | CPU Cores |
|-----------------|-----|-----------|
| CPU-EXTRA-LARGE | 16  | 8         |
| CPU-HUGE        | 32  | 16        |
| CPU-MEGA        | 64  | 32        |
| CPU-TITAN       | 128 | 40        |


While **doubling** the CPU allocation **CPU Optimized Instances are only 25% more expensive than their Standard counterpart.**

## Memory Optimized Instances

Alongside CPU Optimized Instances we are also releasing four additional **Memory Optimized Instances** with an adapted mix of memory allocation per CPU. Compared to their Standard counterpart, **Memory Optimized Instances are 25% less expensive**.

| Memory Optimized   | RAM | CPU Cores |
|--------------------|-----|-----------|
| MEMORY-EXTRA-LARGE | 16  | 2         |
| MEMORY-HUGE        | 32  | 4         |
| MEMORY-MEGA        | 64  | 8         |
| MEMORY-TITAN       | 128 | 12        |


Memory Optimized Instances are recommended for in-memory cache services like Redis® or Memcache, and are ideal for high-performance SQL or NoSQL databases.

## Scale Your CPU or Memory Needs Today

The new instance types are available today in all zones and can used with all supported tools and integrations.

You can have a look at the detailed pricing on our [pricing page][pricing], and spin a fresh instance in seconds from our [management portal][portal].

![Instance type selector](https://www.exoscale.com/blog/cpu-memory-instance-types-release/instance-type-selector.png)


[pricing]: https://www.exoscale.com/pricing/
[portal]: https://portal.exoscale.com/compute/instances/add