EC2 Instance History

I received an interesting tweet last night. Steve Goldsmith of ITOC Australia (an APN Advanced Consulting Partner and recipient of an AWS Customer Obsession award earlier this year) asked me if I had a historical timeline of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance launches:

I didn’t have one, but it seemed like a worthwhile thing to have and so I spent a few minutes putting the following list together:

• August 2006 – m1.small.
• February 2010 – m2.2xlarge.
• February 2010 – m2.xlarge.
• July 2010 – cc1.4xlarge.
• September 2010 – t1.micro.
• November 2010 – cg1.4xlarge.
• November 2011 – cc2.8xlarge.
• March 2012 – m1.medium.
• July 2012 – hi1.4xlarge.
• October 2012 – m3.xlarge, m3.2xlarge.
• December 2012 – hs1.8xlarge.
• January 2013 – cr1.8xlarge.
• November 2013 – c3.large, c3.xlarge, c3.2xlarge, c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge.
• November 2013 – g2.2xlarge.
• December 2013 – i2.xlarge, i2.2xlarge, i2.4xlarge, i2.8xlarge.
• April 2014 – r3.large, r3.xlarge, r3.2xlarge, r3.4xlarge, r3.8xlarge.
• July 2014 – t2.micro, t2.small, t2.medium.
• January 2015 – c4.large, c4.xlarge, c4.2xlarge, c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge.
• March 2015 – d2.xlarge, d2.2xlarge, d2.4xlarge, d2.8xlarge.

I am still working on dates for the following instances:

• [Before August 2009] – c1.medium, c1.xlarge.
• [Before October 2009] – m1.large, m1.xlarge.
• [Before September 2010] – m2.4xlarge.

— Jeff;