Overview

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.

Highlights

Amazon EC2 makes it easy to start and manage your Windows-based instances.
Amazon EC2 running Windows Server provides seamless integration with existing Amazon EC2 features like Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic-Load Balancing, and Elastic IPs.
You can manage your Amazon EC2 resources using our web service APIs. We provide the AWS SDK for .NET that enables you to call AWS infrastructure services.

Details

Sold by

Amazon Web Services

Pricing

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Base

Info

View purchase options

This product is free. Subscriptions have no end date and can be canceled anytime.

Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.

Additional AWS infrastructure costs

Type	Cost
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes	$0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage

Vendor refund policy

If you need to request a refund for software sold by Amazon Web Services, LLC, please contact AWS Customer Service. Web Support: bit.ly/1Q6bE3; Phone Support: bit.ly/MFEcTI

Legal

Vendor terms and conditions

Upon subscribing to this product, you must acknowledge and agree to the terms and conditions outlined in the vendor's End User License Agreement (EULA) .

Content disclaimer

Vendors are responsible for their product descriptions and other product content. AWS does not warrant that vendors' product descriptions or other product content are accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.

Usage information

Info

Delivery details

64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

Version release notes

Changes:

AWSPowerShell v4.1.648
Windows Security Updates current to September 10th 2024

Additional details

Usage instructions

Please visit this following page for more information on using Windows: http://aws.amazon.com/windows/

Resources

Vendor resources

Windows and .Net Developer Center

Microsoft License Mobility

Support

Vendor support

Free support is available through forums, technical documentation, and tutorials. Paid support is available.

Get support

AWS infrastructure support

AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.

Get support

Similar products

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Base for STIG compliance

By Amazon Web Services

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 compatible Windows-based solutions on AWS' high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform.

View product

CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Benchmark - Level 1

By Center for Internet Security

The CIS AMI for Microsoft Windows Server 2016 is hardened in accordance with the associated CIS Benchmark that has been developed by consensus to be the industry best practice for secure configuration. Reduce cost, time, and risk by building your AWS solution with CIS AMIs.

View product

CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Benchmark - Level 2

By Center for Internet Security

View product

Visual Studio Enterprise 2022

By Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Visual Studio on Microsoft Windows Server is a fast and dependable environment that provides the latest platform capabilities with enhanced development tools and quality enablement. Amazon EC2 enables you to run compatible Windows-based solutions on AWS' high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform. The product is currently supported on Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 as base operating systems.

View product

Customer reviews

Write a review

Ratings and reviews

Info

0 ratings

5 star

4 star

3 star

2 star

1 star

0 AWS reviews

3 external reviews

External reviews are sourced from G2 and are not included in the star rating for this product.

Mohit V.

Reduced footprint with increased productivity

Reviewed on Aug 16, 2023

Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?

Windows Server 2016 Core, a streamlined variant of the Windows Server OS, offering several benefits compared to the GUI installation. A notable advantage is its reduced attack surface: by fewer components and services, it diminishes the potential entry points for cyber threats.

What do you dislike about the product?

No GUI: Windows Server Core lacks a graphical interface, complicating tasks for GUI-oriented admins.
Learning Curve: Requires command-line expertise, a challenge for novices.
Setup Complexity is another challenge.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

This inherently enhances security, making it particularly valuable for internet-facing servers. Furthermore, the leaner design contributes to reduced maintenance demands. The need for updates and patches is minimized, simplifying the patching process and decreasing downtime.

As Windows admin and user in Production environment, I can share my feedback

Reviewed on Nov 17, 2021

Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?

It's has updated powershell versions and also in Hyper v Microsoft included the Hot add options. And also in Pam facilities and also Refs file system

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing much in windows server 2016, after 2008 server all server operating system are good but version wise it has different futures

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Core usage is less in organization but still we faced basic issues like ii's prerequisites and dot net issues but those are not manjor issues we noticed for our production

nice service for big companies

Reviewed on Oct 12, 2021

Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?

i love Active directory because that is a very big tool that allows the use a lot of applications with it and login to the app via AD credentials. not only that it is helping when you have a print server and etc...you can manage all users via AD and give accordingly permission to use their instance

What do you dislike about the product?

we need patch it very often that is not good buy we must for security reasson

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

many problems with SSO and other applications and regarding users as well

Recommendations to others considering the product:

sure that is must OS if you have a normal company and need administer all users