24th October 2008 5:36 pm

Amazon Web Services LLC (NASDAQ: AMZN), today launched a public beta of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud providing greater flexibility for deploying solutions in the AWS cloud.

Additionally, AWS today announced that Amazon EC2 is now Generally Available, having successfully exited its beta period and now offers a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Launched in beta in August of 2006, Amazon EC2 is the popular AWS service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud for businesses and developers.

“When we launched Amazon EC2 over two years ago, the idea of accessing computing power over the web was still a novel idea. Today a diverse array of businesses drawn by the benefits of cloud computing — cost savings without giving up speed, reliability, flexibility, and performance — are running EC2 for all types of applications,” said Peter De Santis, General Manager of Amazon EC2.

“We’ve listened closely to our customers for the past two years and worked backward from their requirements, adding important new features such as those we are announcing today — Windows support and a Service Level Agreement.”

Eli Lilly and Company is a leading pharmaceutical company with a history of innovation. As a part of Lilly’s efforts to find new and improved methods to support research, Lilly recently began using AWS. “Amazon EC2 has given us the ability to easily spin up tailored computing environments that can quickly and cost-effectively process tremendous amounts of research data,” said Dave Powers, Associate Information Consultant at Eli Lilly and Company.

“This is a huge step forward in maximizing our results relative to IT spend, and now that Amazon EC2 runs Windows and SQL Server, we have even greater flexibility in the kinds of applications we can build in the AWS cloud.”

New Features for Amazon EC2 in 2009

To help customers better plan their future hardware and software investments, AWS today announced plans to release several new features in 2009 that will make managing cloud-based applications even easier. Thousands of customers employ the massive compute power of Amazon EC2 to build highly scalable and reliable solutions. AWS will deliver additional features that automate customer usage of Amazon EC2 for more cost-efficient consumption of compute power and provide greater visibility into the operational health of an application running in the AWS cloud.

These features include:

Load Balancing - Enables customers to balance incoming requests and distribute traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 compute instances.
Auto-Scaling - Automatically grows and shrinks usage of Amazon EC2 compute capacity based on application requirements.
Monitoring - Enables customers to monitor operational metrics of Amazon EC2, providing even better visibility into usage of the AWS cloud.
Management Console - Provides a simple, point-and-click web interface that lets customers manage and access their AWS cloud resources. 

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