AWS marketplace and no longer supported instance types

I’ve been trying and trying to launch a Neo4j instance on the marketplace without success. It always gave me the nice “success” message, but when I went to the EC2 console: nothing!

A nice green “success” message even though it doesn’t work.

I finally decided to do it the hard way: manually. First step: select an instance type. I immediately try to select the same low cost instance I had picked in the marketplace (m3.medium) and to my surprise that type wasn’t there.

Instance type selection as per the Neo4j marketplace page.

Adding 1 + 1, I went back to the market place and tried with an instance type that still exists: m4.large… success!

So I don’t know who is to blame here, but here are my 2 questions to the internet:

  1. Why do we get the success message even though it doesn’t work?
  2. Why are unsupported instance types offered in the market place?

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