Chapter�2.燱hat's New From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31 previous page next page What's New This What's New is associated with the 2009-10-31 release of Amazon EC2. This guide was last updated on December 09, 2009. The following table describes the important changes since the last release of the Amazon EC2 documentation set. Change Description Release Date Windows 2008 Amazon EC2 now supports Windows 2008. For more information, go to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Detail Page. 9 December 2009 AMIs Backed by Amazon EBS Amazon EC2 AMIs can now use Amazon EBS volumes as their root devices. These are easier to create than AMIs that use instance stores as their root devices, launch faster, support sizes up to 1 TiB, and use persistent storage. 2 December 2009 Amazon EC2 in Northern California Amazon EC2 is now available in the Northern California. For more information, go to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Detail Page. 2 December 2009 previous page start next page