This AMI includes Melio with Windows Server and IIS. Melio allows AWS customers to cluster Windows Server IIS, enabling cost-effective scale-out of their web-serving environments while providing HA incorporating multiple availability zones. Melio is designed to be deployed as a multi-instance cluster within a VPC, using shared block storage such Zadara, NetApp, or the internal storage of multiple EC2 instances managed by Melio's software-defined storage features. See http://blog.sanbolic.com/?p=4072 for more information.

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server is a fast and dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform. Amazon EC2 enables you to run any compatible Windows-based solution on AWS' high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform. Common Windows use cases include Enterprise Windows-based application hosting, website and web-service hosting, data processing, media transcoding, distributed testing, ASP.NET application hosting, and any other application requiring Windows software.

Note: Microsoft ended support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008R2 on January 14th 2020. These images are no longer available from AWS Marketplace. Please review the end of support FAQ here: https://aws.amazon.com/windows/faq/#eos-microsoft-products