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Clarify EC2 instance size requirements #222

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The [pganalyze collector](https://github.com/pganalyze/collector) is a daemon process that continuously collects database statistics, and submits them to the pganalyze dashboard in recurring intervals.

You can either run it on a small instance (a `t3.small` suffices), or add it to an existing EC2 instance in your environment.
You can either run it on a small instance, or add it to an existing EC2 instance in your environment.

When monitoring a single medium-sized database `t3.micro` is usually large enough, though you may need `t3.small` to monitor multiple large databases.

## Starting a new EC2 instance

Start a new `t3.small` instance, Amazon Linux 2 based, that has the IAM role applied:
Start a new Amazon Linux 2 based instance that has the IAM role applied:

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