.. _insights-cloud-installation:

Cloud installation
------------------

The VM specification and requirements for each product
can be used as guidelines when preparing for cloud installations.

For example, for the example minimum sizes below, the VM
specifications are best matched by the cloud VM types
indicated:

* Google Cloud products

  ==========  =================  ======================
  Product     Size               Cloud VM Specification
  ==========  =================  ======================
  Arbitrator  < 5k users         n2-standard-8
  Dashboard   < 10k users        n2-standard-8
  Raptor      N/A                custom
  DS-9        < 1,000 flows/sec  n2d-standard-16
  ==========  =================  ======================

* Amazon Web Services

  ==========  =================  ====================== 
  Product     Size               Cloud VM Specification
  ==========  =================  ======================
  Arbitrator  < 5k users         t2.2xlarge
  Dashboard   < 10k users        t2.2xlarge
  Raptor      N/A                t2.small
  DS-9        < 1,000 flows/sec  m6g.4xlarge
  ==========  =================  ======================

* Microsoft Azure

  ==========  =================  ======================
  Product     Size               Cloud VM Specification
  ==========  =================  ======================
  Arbitrator  < 5k users         B8ms
  Dashboard   < 10k users        B8ms
  Raptor      N/A                B1ms
  DS-9        < 1,000 flows/sec  D16 v5
  ==========  =================  ======================