We are excited to announce that we have extended Amazon EC2 to Europe. Developers and businesses can now run their Amazon EC2 instances in the EU to help achieve lower latency, operate closer to other resources like Amazon S3 in the EU, and meet EU data storage requirements when applicable. The new European Region for Amazon EC2 contains two Availability Zones enabling you to easily and cost effectively run fault-tolerant applications with the same scalability, reliability and cost efficiency achieved with Amazon EC2 in the U.S.

With today’s launch, you can take advantage of the latest features of Amazon EC2 including multiple Availability Zones, Elastic IP addresses, and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). In the near future, Amazon EC2 will also add support for Windows Server and SQL Server in the EU, which is a new feature that was recently introduced on Amazon EC2 in the US.

Please visit the following pages for more information:

• Release Notes
• Amazon EC2 Detail Page and Pricing
• Feature Guide: Amazon EC2 Regions

Sincerely,

The Amazon EC2 Team