Document History

Added an expanded breadcrumb to the HTML version, and reduced the front matter content.

Updated the information about paid and supported AMIs to reflect that DevPay does not support Spot Instances. For more information, see Current Limitations.

Updated images of the product registration process to include the new US-West (Northern California) Region.

Updated the information about paid and supported AMIs to reflect that DevPay only supports Amazon S3-backed AMIs (those that use an instance store root device), and not Amazon EBS-backed AMIs (those that use an Amazon EBS root device).

Added information about the timing of activation vs. the timing of when the customer is subscribed to DevPay products that use Amazon S3. For more information, see Activation and Subscription Timing for desktop products, and see Activation and Subscription Timing for web products.

Added information about Auto Scaling and Amazon CloudWatch and their use with paid or supported AMIs. For more information, see Costs You're Not Responsible For.

Updated the guide to discuss that Elastic Load Balancing is currently not available for use with instances of paid or supported AMIs. For more information, see Allowed Usage-Based Charges.