| title: | Flavor |
|---|---|
| description: | What is a Deis Flavor? |
| keywords: | flavor |
A flavor defines the configuration for :ref:`Nodes <node>` in a :ref:`Layer`, including their:
- Provider Type (e.g. EC2)
- Launch Parameters (region, zone, etc)
- Initial Configuration using cloud-config
The :ref:`Controller` comes pre-seeded with default flavors for EC2 that use 64-bit Deis-optimized AMIs with an m1.medium instance size.