Despite only few days passed since major faults Amazon suffered on his Xen-based general purpose grid computing facility, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the company is ready to announce a major improvement in the service, introducing 2way and 4way 64bit virtual machines.
In details Amazon now allows creation of three kind of virtual machines inside EC2:
Small Instance (default)
- 1.7 GB memory
- 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit)
- 160 GB instance storage (150 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
- 32-bit platform
- I/O Performance: Moderate
- Price: $0.10 per instance hour
Large Instance
- 7.5 GB memory
- 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
- 850 GB instance storage (2 x 420 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
- 64-bit platform
- I/O Performance: High
- Price: $0.40 per instance hour
Extra Large Instance
- 15 GB memory
- 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
- 1,690 GB instance storage (4 x 420 GB plus 10 GB root partition)
- 64-bit platform
- I/O Performance: High
- Price: $0.80 per instance hour
But the biggest news is that EC2 beta program is no more restricted to a small amount of testers.
Enroll for it here.