Cognosys presents this specially hardened & pre-configured Visual Studio Community 2015 image. This Image is made specially for customers who are looking for deploying a self-managed Community edition on Hardened kernel instead of just putting up a vanilla install.

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Visual Studio Community 2015 is a fully-featured, extensible, free IDE for creating modern applications for Android, iOS, Windows, as well as web applications and cloud services. Visual Studio Community now integrates Xamarin features that complete the out-of-the-box mobile application development experience for Android, iOS and Windows. Share code across devices while delivering apps with native performance and look & feel. Code with confidence in your language, find and fix code issues quickly, and refactor with ease.

For the initial launch, it may take up to 20 minutes to launch.

Please note: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 are reaching end of support on October 10th 2023. These images will be removed from AWS Marketplace by October 10th, and you will no longer be able to access license included AMIs provided by Amazon after this date. Custom AMIs you own and active EC2 instances will not be impacted, but we recommend upgrading your current workloads. Please review the end of support FAQ here: https://aws.amazon.com/windows/faq/#eos-microsoft-products. 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.