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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in Amazon Web Services China - Getting Started with Amazon Web Services China
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Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) in Amazon Web Services China

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It’s designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to launch instances with a variety of operating systems, load them with your custom application environment, manage your network’s access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as you want to.

Region availability

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is available in the following Regions in China:

  • China (Beijing) Region

  • China (Ningxia) Region

How Amazon EC2 differs

The following differences apply to Amazon EC2:

General differences

  • Starter accounts—For customers with an Internal Access Account, Amazon EC2 public Internet ports are blocked. Internal ports remain available. For more information, see Signup, Accounts, and Credentials.

Billing and purchasing differences

  • Reserved Instances:

    • Reserved Instance Marketplace is not available.

    • Standard Reserved Instances are not available in three-year terms.

    • Reserved Instance discount pricing tiers—For more information, see Reserved Instance discount pricing tiers.

      Total list value of Reserved Instances Upfront discount Hourly discount

      Less than ¥3200000

      0%

      0%

      ¥3200000 to ¥25000000

      5%

      5%

      ¥25000000 to ¥64000000

      10%

      10%

      More than ¥64000000

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  • Spot Instances:

    • Spot Instance requests—The AWSServiceRoleForEC2Spot service-linked role is not created for you automatically. Create a service-linked role with this name, using spot.amazonaws.com as the service name and AWSEC2SpotServiceRolePolicy as the policy.

    • Spot Instance data feed is not available.

Fleet differences

  • EC2 Fleet can’t launch On-Demand Instances into targeted Capacity Reservations.

Image differences

  • EC2 AMI Tools—The China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions use a non-default public key certificate to encrypt Amazon Machine Image (AMI) manifests. The ec2-bundle-image, ec2-bundle-vol, ec2-migrate-bundle, and ec2-migrate-manifest commands require the --ec2cert $EC2_AMITOOL_HOME/etc/ec2/amitools/cert-ec2-cn-north-1.pem option in the China (Beijing) Region, and the --ec2cert $EC2_AMITOOL_HOME/etc/ec2/amitools/cert-ec2-cn-northwest-1.pem option in the China (Ningxia) Region.

  • The lastLaunchedTime AMI attribute is not available.

  • Cross-region copy operations are supported only between the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions.

Instance differences

  • Only some Amazon EC2 instance types are available. For lists of available instance types by Region, see Amazon EC2 instance types by Region.

  • Mac instances are not available.

  • On-Demand Instance hibernation is not available.

  • Amazon EC2 instance topology is not available.

  • Amazon Systems Manager for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is not available.

  • Systems Manager Automation—The aws:copyImage action is not available.

  • Amazon Nitro Enclaves is not available.

  • Credential Guard is not available.

  • Nested virtualization is not available.

Networking differences

  • Bring your own IP address ranges (BYOIP) is not available.

  • ENA Express is not available.

  • By default, enhanced networking is not enabled on Windows Server 2012 R2 AMIs. For more information, see Enhanced networking on Amazon EC2 instances.

How VM Import/Export differs

VM Import/Export is different for China Regions in the following ways:

  • TPM and Secure Boot are not available.

  • VM Import:

    • Windows 11 is not available.

    • Windows Server 2022 is not available.

  • VM Export: The Amazon S3 bucket for the destination image must exist and must have WRITE and READ_ACP permissions granted to the China (Beijing) Region account with the following canonical ID: 834bafd86b15b6ca71074df0fd1f93d234b9d5e848a2cb31f880c149003ce36f.

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