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 (Amazon 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 (these are all announcement dates):

• August 2006 – m1.small.
• October 2007 – m1.large, m1.xlarge.
• May 2008 – c1.medium, c1.xlarge.
• October 2009 – m2.2xlarge, m2.4xlarge.
• 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.
• January 2014 – m3.medium, m3.large.
• 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.
• April 2015 – g2.8xlarge.
• June 2015 – t2.large.
• June 2015 – m4.large, m4.xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.10xlarge.
• December 2015 – t2.nano.
• May 2016 – x1.32xlarge.
• September 2016 – m4.16xlarge.
• September 2016 – p2.xlarge, p2.8xlarge, p2.16xlarge.
• October 2016 – x1.16xlarge.
• November 2016 – f1.2xlarge, f1.16xlarge.
• November 2016 – r4.large, r4.xlarge, r4.2xlarge, r4.4xlarge, r4.8xlarge, r4.16xlarge.
• November 2016 – t2.xlarge, t2.2xlarge.
• November 2016 – i3.large, i3.xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.16xlarge.
• November 2016 – c5.large, c5.xlarge, c5.2xlarge, c5.4xlarge, c5.8xlarge, c5.16xlarge.
• July 2017 – g3.4xlarge, g3.8xlarge, g3.16xlarge.
• September 2017 – x1e.32xlarge.
• October 2017 – p3.2xlarge, p3.8xlarge, p3.16xlarge.
• November 2017 – x1e.xlarge, x1e.2xlarge, x1e.4xlarge, x1e.8xlarge, x1e.16xlarge.
• November 2017 – m5.large, m5.xlarge, m5.2xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.12xlarge, m5.24xlarge.
• November 2017 – h1.2xlarge, h1.4xlarge, h1.8xlarge, h1.16xlarge.
• November 2017 – i3.metal.
• May 2018 – c5d.large, c5d.xlarge, c5d.2xlarge, c5d.4xlarge, c5d.9xlarge, c5d.18xlarge.
• June 2018 – m5d.large, m5d.xlarge, m5d.2xlarge, m5d.4xlarge, m5d.12xlarge, m5d.24xlarge.
• July 2018 – z1d.large, z1d.xlarge, z1d.2xlarge, z1d.3xlarge, z1d.6xlarge, z1d.12xlarge, z1d.metal, r5.large, r5.xlarge, r5.2xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5.12xlarge, r5.metal, r5.24xlarge, r5d.large, r5d.xlarge, r5d.2xlarge, r5d.4xlarge, r5d.12xlarge, r5d.24xlarge, r5d.metal.
• August 2018 – t3.nano, t3.micro, t3.small, t3.medium, t3.large, t3.2xlarge.
• September 2018 – u-6tb1.metal, u-9tb1.metal, u-12tb1.metal.
• October 2018 – g3s.xlarge.
• November 2018 – m5a.large, m5a.xlarge, m5a.2xlarge, m5a.4xlarge, m5a.12xlarge, m5a.24xlarge, r5a.large, r5a.xlarge, r5a.2xlarge, r5a.4xlarge, r5a.12xlarge, r5a.24xlarge.
• November 2018 – c5n.large, c5n.xlarge, c5n.2xlarge, c5x.9xlarge, c5n.18xlarge.
• November 2018 – a1.medium, a1.large, a1.xlarge, a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge.
• February 2019 – m5.metal, m5d.metal.
• March 2019 – g4.
• March 2019 – m5ad.large, m5ad.xlarge, m5ad.2xlarge, m5ad.4xlarge, m5ad.12xlarge, m5ad.24xlarge, r5ad.large, r5ad.xlarge, r5ad.2xlarge, r5ad.4xlarge, r5ad.12xlarge, r5ad.24xlarge.
• May 2019 – 18 TB and 24 TB High Memory.
• May 2019 – i3en.large, i3en.xlarge, i3en.2xlarge, i3en.3xlarge, i3en.6xlarge, i3en.12xlarge, i3en.24xlarge.
• June 2019 – r5.8xlarge, r5a.8xlarge, r5d.8xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5a.16xlarge, r5d.16xlarge, m5.8xlarge, m5a.8xlarge, m5d.8xlarge, m5.16xlarge, m5a.16xlarge, m5d.16xlarge.
• June 2019 – c5.12xlarge, c5.24xlarge, c5.metal.
• August 2019 – c5n.metal, i3en.metal.
• September 2019 – g4dn.xlarge, g4dn.2xlarge, g4dn.4xlarge, g4dn.8xlarge, g4dn.12xlarge, g4dn.16xlarge.
• October 2019 – r5dn.large, r5dn.xlarge, r5dn.2xlarge, r5dn.4xlarge, r5dn.8xlarge, r5dn.12xlarge, r5dn.16xlarge, r5dn.24xlarge, r5n.large, r5n.xlarge, r5n.2xlarge, r5n.4xlarge, r5n.8xlarge, r5n.12xlarge, r5n.16xlarge, r5n.24xlarge, m5dn.large, m5dn.xlarge, m5dn.2xlarge, m5dn.4xlarge, m5dn.8xlarge, m5dn.12xlarge, m5dn.16xlarge, m5dn.24xlarge, m5n.large, m5n.xlarge, m5n.2xlarge, m5n.4xlarge, m5n.8xlarge, m5n.12xlarge, m5n.16xlarge, m5n.24xlarge.
• November 2019 – c5d.metal, c5d.12xlarge, c5d.24xlarge.
• December 2019 – inf1.xlarge, inf1.2xlarge, inf1.6xlarge, inf1.24xlarge.
• December 2019 – m6g, m6gd, c6g, c6gd, r6g, r6gd.
• June 2020 – c5a.large, c5a.xlarge, c5a.2xlarge, c5a.4xlarge, c5a.8xlarge, c5a.12xlarge, c5a.16xlarge, c5a.24xlarge.
• September 2020 – t4g.nano, t4g.micro, t4g.small, t4g.medium, t4g.large, t4g.xlarge, t4g.2xlarge.
• September 2020 – c5.12xlarge, c5.24xlarge, c5.metal.
• December 2020 – mac1.metal.
• December 2020 – d3.xlarge, d3.2xlarge, d3.4xlarge, d3.8xlarge, d3en.xlarge, d3.2xlarge, d3.4xlarge, d3.6xlarge, d3.8xlarge, d3.12xlarge.
• December 2020 – r5b.large, r5b.xlarge, r5b.2xlarge, r5b.4xlarge, r5b.8xlarge, r5b.12xlarge, r5b.16xlarge, r5b.24xlarge, r5b.metal.
• December 2020 – m5zn.large, m5zn.xlarge, m5zn.2xlarge, m5zn.3xlarge, m5zn.6xlarge, m5zn.12xlarge, m5zn.metal.
• December 2020 – g4ad.4xlarge, g4ad.8xlarge, g4ad.16xlarge.
• December 2020 – c6gn.medium, c6gn.large, c6gn.xlarge, c6gn.2xlarge, c6gn.4xlarge, c6gn.8xlarge, c6gn.12xlarge, c6gn.16xlarge.
• February 2021 – m5n.metal, m5dn.metal, r5n.metal, r5dn.metal.
• March 2021 – x2gd.medium, x2gd.large, x2gd.xlarge, x2gd.4xlarge, x2gd.8xlarge, x2gd.12xlarge, x2gd.16xlarge, x2gd.metal.
• May 2021 – u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge, u-9tb1.112xlarge, u-12tb1.112xlarge.

— Jeff;

PS – The EC2 Instance Timeline shows this data in another way. Be sure to check it out!