Amazon EC2 opens beta to all software developers & biz
16 Oct '07
3 min read
Amazon Web Services LLC announced new flexibility for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) by introducing multiple instance types for Amazon EC2 developers. Customers can now choose compute instances up to eight times as powerful as those previously available, addressing a popular user request. Additionally, Amazon Web Services announced that the Amazon EC2 beta, which previously limited the number of new registrants, is now open to all developers.
"We continue to be pleased by the tremendous level of interest from the developer and business communities in Amazon EC2," said Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Product Management and Developer Relations, Amazon Web Services. "Our beta participants provided important feedback that we used to improve the service and add new features like the multiple instance types that we introduced today. We're excited to open up the service to all developers and see the next wave of innovative businesses and applications built on Amazon EC2."
Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the cloud, Amazon EC2 enables resizable "compute" capacity in the cloud to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Customers use a simple web service interface to obtain and configure capacity on Amazon's proven computing environment. New server instances can be obtained and booted automatically as a developer's computing requirements change.
This "elastic" nature of Amazon EC2 allows any developer to reach the scale of major internet players like Amazon.com, but without the significant cost of building out and maintaining a massive back-end infrastructure. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing developers to pay only for the capacity they actually use.
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