Can GETH run quickly and be always up-to-date with an AWS c5 instance?

Question

I've noticed that most people who are using AWS to run their ethereum node are using the i3 (or i3en) instance type for its high I/O performance with the attached SSD.

For my particular use case, I want to run some separate fairly computation-intensive processes on the same machine as my GETH node, so the c5 (or c5a) instance type would be better suited for that purpose. Would GETH run well on a c5 (or c5a) instance type with an attached gp2 EBS volume, or would that cause degradation in performance? (I would of course sync first on an i3, then move the data over to a c5 for production)

Answer 1

Yes, it can run on c5.

Amazon Managed Blockchain for Ethereum service offers several instance types, and c5 is one of them. It has c5.xlarge, c5.2xlarge and c5.4xlarge.

I suggest also testing m5 instances, as they provide faster memory access, which can help if the state you're accessing happen to be cached in memory by either Geth or LevelDB.