# Hardware requirements for 5k devices

**URL:** <https://forum.genieacs.com/t/hardware-requirements-for-5k-devices/4606>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 16, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.genieacs.com/t/hardware-requirements-for-5k-devices/4606 "2023-10-16T14:41:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nirmeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c77e96/32.png) [@Nirmeen](https://forum.genieacs.com/u/Nirmeen)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.genieacs.com/t/hardware-requirements-for-5k-devices/4606/1 "2023-10-16T14:41:58Z")

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Hello, I want to install Genie but I don’t know the hardware requirements. I have about 5K devices. I want to download it on AWS. Please help me choose the right instance type (CPU and memory)

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**Author:** ![efrancone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e56c9b/32.png) [@efrancone](https://forum.genieacs.com/u/efrancone)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.genieacs.com/t/hardware-requirements-for-5k-devices/4606/2 "2023-10-23T14:46:47Z")

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depends of the time of periodic interval, and provision boot and inform script complexity. But xeon 16 core and 32gb ram its a good choise.