13 Facts About Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 provides users with control over the geographical location of instances that allows for latency optimization and high levels of redundancy.

In November 2010, Amazon switched its own retail website platform to EC2 and AWS.

Amazon EC2 was developed mostly by a team in Cape Town, South Africa led by Chris Pinkham.

When it launched in August 2006, the Amazon EC2 service offered Linux and later Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris and Solaris Express Community Edition.

In October 2008, Amazon EC2 added the Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems to the list of available operating systems.

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Amazon EC2 has their own Linux distribution based on the Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a low cost offering known as the Amazon EC2 Linux AMI.

Since December 2017 Amazon EC2 provides a CloudWatch Agent for Windows and Linux operating systems included disk and previously not available memory information, previously Amazon EC2 provided example scripts for Linux instances to collect OS information.

Amazon EC2 provides an API which allows clients to operate on CloudWatch alarms.

Metrics collected by Amazon CloudWatch enables the auto-scaling feature to dynamically add or remove EC2 instances.

Since May 2011, Amazon EC2 CloudWatch accepts custom metrics that can be submitted programmatically via Web Services API and then monitored the same way as all other internal metrics, including setting up the alarms for them, and since July 2014 Cloudwatch Logs service is available.

Amazon's auto-scaling feature of EC2 allows it to automatically adapt computing capacity to site traffic.

Charts above show how Amazon EC2 pricing is compared to similar Cloud Computing services: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kamatera, and Vultr.

Amazon EC2 provides users with control over the geographical location of instances that allows for latency optimization and high levels of redundancy.