Trivia: What is this symbol that AWS EC2 displays once you SSH into the machine?

Question

Just really interested about this one, what the blazes is this ASCII art here?

$ ssh foo@$AWS_IP

Last login: Sat Mar 21 08:39:27 2015 from xx.xx.xx.xx

       __|  __|_  )
       _|  (     /   Amazon Linux AMI
      ___|\___|___|

I need it for my sanity.

Answer 1

It's ASCII art that says EC2. That stands for Elastic Compute Cloud