A company needs to run workloads that are heavy on CPU across several Amazon EC2 instances. Which EC2 instance family is best suited for this requirement?

Compute optimized instances (C family) are specifically designed for compute-intensive workloads that benefit from high-performance processors, making them ideal for tasks like high-performance web servers, batch processing, and scientific modeling. General purpose instances (M family) offer a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources, suitable for a wide range of applications but not optimized for CPU-heavy tasks. Memory optimized instances (R family) are designed for workloads that process large datasets in memory, such as in-memory databases. Storage optimized instances (I and D families) are designed for workloads that require high sequential read and write access to very large datasets on local storage.