Echoing that, many EC2 customers may not even be aware of EC2-Classic: Accounts created on or after December 4, 2013 were created as VPC-only, and were given access to EC2-Classic only upon request.

New EC2 customers, and customers launching in new regions, will be launched onto Amazon Web Services' (AWS) EC2-VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) platform, Amazon Web Services has announced.