Does Amazon EC2 and RDS have ECC memory?

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I know that Amazon's Cluster GPU Instances have ECC memory as mentioned on their blog but there's no mention of other instance types. There's a forum post from back in 2007 that went unanswered. Does anyone know if they're running ECC?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '13 at 14:00

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(Disclaimer: Product Manager for EC2)

Just noticed this thread via Hacker News. In our experience, ECC memory is a requirement for server infrastructure, and all Amazon EC2 servers use ECC. We will be updating our detail pages with that information soon.

answered Jul 17 '13 at 14:00

Deepak Singh

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Thanks Deepak, great to have official info on this. Very much appreciated. – Sean Bannister Jul 17 '13 at 20:26

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 19 '20 at 17:19

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Q: Does Amazon EC2 use ECC memory?

In our experience, ECC memory is necessary for server infrastructure, and all the hardware underlying Amazon EC2 uses ECC memory.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/ as of 2020-11

answered Nov 19 '20 at 17:19

LeoMurillo

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Does Amazon EC2 and RDS have ECC memory?

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