Today is the day Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) became ready for production use.
Werner Vogels announced the launch of two crucial features: customer-specific IP addresses and geographically spread out sites.
Previously every machine you started was assigned a random IP address, and you had to have your own load balancers, or hope that none of your clients had misconfigured their DNS.
This also gives us hope that we can serve non-US customers through Amazon EC2 someday, as the availability zones can be easily extended to the EU and Asia.
The currently available zones are:
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1a available
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1b available
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1c available
Amazon calls these features Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones.
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