Amazon Web Services brings Instance Type for Amazon EC2

BANGALORE, INDIA: Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced the availability of T2 instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type designed to reduce costs for applications that do not require sustained high CPU performance but benefit from the ability to burst to full core performance.

T2 instances are low-cost Amazon EC2 instance option and are for web servers, developer environments, and small databases. When used with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) General Purpose (SSD) volumes, T2 instances also bring storage options to customers at a low cost. 

"Amazon EC2 provides an unmatched selection of instances to support customers running whatever workload they want on AWS. Some of our customers have requested instance types that optimize their performance and cost for applications that don't use the full CPU capability frequently, but require the full CPU resources for short bursts," said Matt Garman, vice president, Amazon EC2 at Amazon Web Services.

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Customers can launch T2 instances using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS SDKs, AWS Marketplace, and third-party libraries.

T2 instances are available in three instance sizes and are initially available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Australia (Sydney), and Brazil (Sao Paulo) Regions.

T2 instances can be purchased as on-demand and reserved instances.