Amazon runs nothing but Xeons and Opterons, which require the use of ECC memory.
http://serverfault.com/questions/433221/does-amazon-ec2-and-...
>AWS does not comment on this question. The general consensus (based on seeing this question asked on SO, HackerNews, Reddit and so on) is that, unless AWS specifically tells you the instance type is running ECC memory, you should assume it is not.
>Although unscientific and inconclusive I suppose this makes sense - ECC is a selling point, and the fact that AWS does not plaster "all our instances run ECC" on their info pages certainly suggests that they are not.
Some Opterons require EEC, some don't.