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Wikipedia[1] gives August 25, 2006 for the EC2 limited beta announcement; AWS's own What's New post is dated August 24, 2006, the same evening in US time.In late August 2006 Amazon opened a limited public beta of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), letting developers rent virtual servers at about 10 cents per instance-hour on a first-come, first-served basis.
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