Tag: Windows

We’re going to be running a free webinar on December 8th at 9 AM PST. Designed for business and technical decision makers with an interest in migrating Windows Server and Windows Server applications to the AWS cloud, the webinar will address the following topics: Support for the Microsoft .NET platform. Ways for you to take […]

It is a great time to be a software developer with an entrepreneurial mindset. You can get access to development tools, startup resources, and much more at no charge or at a very low cost these days. You don’t need to get venture capital or max out your credit cards in order to get started. […]

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (code named “Denali”) has a lot of really intriguing features including high availability, columnstore indexes, self-service Business Intelligence, faster full-text search, data visualization, and improved security and compliance. Consult the feature guide for more information. In order to make it as easy as possible for you to test your applications with […]

You can now run Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 on the EC2 Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instances using new Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2008 R2 SQL Server AMIs. To reiterate, here are the specs for these compute-intensive instance types: Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large: 23 GB of memory 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 […]

If you are the kind of developer who likes to live in your IDE, you’ll really appreciate the new AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. We’ve provided you with enough power and control to allow you to develop, test, deploy, and maintain your applications without leaving Visual Studio. The toolkit is a small (3.5 MB) download […]

Today we are adding new options for our customers running Windows and SQL Server environments on Amazon EC2. In addition to running Windows Server 2003 and 2008, you can now run now run Windows Server 2008 R2. Sharing the kernel with Windows 7, this release of Windows includes additional Active Directory features, support for version […]

In January I wrote about the availability of a conceptual whitepaper describing various scenarios for using Windows ADFS to federate with services running on Amazon EC2 and mentioned that a step-by-step guide was forthcoming. I’m very pleased to announce that the guide is now finished and available for download. To give you a flavor for […]

Update (November 2011): The information in this post is no longer relevant. Read our post Extending Microsoft Licensing Mobility to the AWS Cloud: Now You Can Run Several Windows Server Applications on AWS for an update. When we talk about AWS with potential users, they often ask if Windows Server is available. As you know, […]