Supersize your Amazon EC2 Assemblies

The New Feature Announcement department is bursting with news about our support for Amazon EC2 large, extra large, and high-CPU instances. As part of our Community Edition, we've historically supported Amazon's small instance which works for many apps. But what if you've developed a cloud-destined, compute-intensive app that's ready to deploy to production? You likely need more memory, more storage and double the bits. Elastic Server now delivers.

Below is a quick refresher on the differences between Amazon's S, L, XL and various high CPU instances. For full details, visit the official Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud page.

• Small Instance - 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
  
  
• Large Instance - 7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform
  
  
• Extra Large Instance - 15 GB of memory, 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform
  
  
• High-CPU Medium Instance - 1.7 GB of memory, 5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each), 350 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
  
  
• High-CPU Extra Large Instance - 7 GB of memory, 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform

Because we're so excited to see what our 1,000+ community members will build, this feature -- part of our Personal Edition -- is on pay holiday for all of you Community members.
Upgrade your Community Account to the Personal Edition and enjoy this feature for the low, low price of zero. Remember: we don't just manage your servers, we help you build them from zero to virtual, so start assembling now!

TIP: Working on a project that involves more than just you? Don't forget that you can securely share your Amazon EC2 credentials with your team. As with most disclaimers following any announcement, we welcome your feedback about anything that goes bump in the code. Happy building!

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