Add EC2 Instance Notebook and new updates for instance type lists

notebooks/README.md

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+## Setup
+
+Prior to running a notebook, you should create a new environment and install the required packages. You can do this by running the following commands:
+
+1. Create a new environment
+2. Activate the environment
+3. Install the required packages
+
+### Environment setup 
+
+#### Conda environments
+
+```bash
+# Create a new conda environment
+conda create --name <env_name> python=3.11
+conda activate <env_name>
+```
+#### Virtual environments
+
+```bash
+
+# Create a new virtual environment
+python3 -m venv <env_name>
+source <env_name>/bin/activate
+```
+
+
+
+### Install required packages
+
+```bash
+# Install the required packages
+pip install --upgrade pip
+pip install -r requirements.txt # or whatever other requirements file you have
+```

notebooks/ec2-instance-type-selection-requirements.txt

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+jupyter
+ipython
+requests
+pandas
+matplotlib
+git+ssh://[email protected]/AllenInstitute/aibs-informatics-aws-utils.git@main#egg=aibs_informatics_aws_utils