I would also like to know when the Availability Zones outside of the US will become available. All the website information talks about multiple zones including the US. But only offered US zones when I try to start an EC2 Instance
For some reason this article doesn't mention european availability zones but they are there:
C:\>ec2-describe-availability-zones
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1a available us-east-1
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1b available us-east-1
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1c available us-east-1
C:\>ec2-describe-availability-zones --region eu-west-1
AVAILABILITYZONE eu-west-1a available eu-west-1
AVAILABILITYZONE eu-west-1b available eu-west-1
Amazon added a new availability zone in the US region on June 10 2009.
$ ec2-describe-availability-zones
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1a available us-east-1
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1b available us-east-1
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1c available us-east-1
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1d available us-east-1