History
Amazon announced a limited public beta of EC2 on August 25, 2006. Access to EC2 was granted on a first come first served basis. Amazon added two new instance types (Large and Extra-Large) on October 16, 2007. On May 29, 2008, two more types were added, High-CPU Medium and High-CPU Extra Large. There are currently twelve types of instances available.
Amazon added three new features on March 27, 2008. These features included static IP addresses, Availability Zones, and User Selectable Kernels. Amazon added Elastic Block Store (EBS) on August 20, 2008. This provides persistent storage, a feature that had been lacking since the service was introduced.
Amazon EC2 is in full production since it dropped the beta label on October 23, 2008. On the same day, Amazon announced the following features: a service level agreement for EC2, Microsoft Windows in beta form on EC2, Microsoft SQL Server in beta form on EC2, plans for an AWS management console, and plans for load balancing, autoscaling, and cloud monitoring services. These features were subsequently added on May 18, 2009.
Amazon EC2 was mostly developed by a team in Cape Town, South Africa. The team was led by Chris Pinkham. Pinkham provided the initial architecture guidance for EC2 and then built the team and led the development of the project. Other members of the early team included Chris Brown, Quinton Hoole, Roland Paterson-Jones and Willem Van Biljon.
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