Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2
AWS News Blog
This article celebrates Amazon EC2's 20th anniversary, highlighting two decades of innovation in cloud computing infrastructure.
- EC2 evolved from one instance type in one region to over 1,200 instance types across 39 global regions
- AWS Inferentia and Trainium chips provide purpose-built silicon for AI inference and training at scale
- EC2 Mac instances expanded from Intel to Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4 variants) for macOS and iOS development
- Graviton5 processors deliver 192 cores with 5x larger cache for agentic AI workloads
- AWS Nitro Isolation Engine uses formal verification for mathematically proven workload isolation
- EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML democratizes GPU access with flexible reservation and instant provisioning
EC2 remains AWS's foundational compute layer, powering all higher-level services while maintaining its core value of secure, resizable capacity with pay-as-you-go pricing.
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