Octane Cloud Desktop is the world's first turn-key high performance cloud desktop solution specifically designed for streaming high-end remote graphics. Use this AMI to stream a Windows based virtual desktop, hosted in the cloud, to a web browser anywhere in the world.

• Access your performance intensive Windows-based applications and data from any device, regardless of your operating system or device performance.
  
  
• Your applications seamlessly render with clarity in HD due to OTOY's next generation ORBX(tm) Video Codec.
  
  
• Stream your applications using OTOY's native client application (available for Windows, Linux and iOS), or go plugin-free with ORBX.js on any modern browser (including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer).
  
  
• Includes OTOY WebCL(tm) remote graphics driver - the only OpenCL 1.2 GPU runtime for NVIDIA GRID. Please email SDK@webcl.com for more info.
  
  

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