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Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Base Nano

Amazon Web Services | 2018.04.11

Windows, Windows Server 2016 Base Nano 10 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Reviews from AWS Marketplace

6 AWS reviews

External reviews

3 reviews
from G2

External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.

    Mohit V.

Reduced footprint with increased productivity

  • August 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.

    Hospital & Health Care

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

  • November 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

    Program Development

nice service for big companies

  • October 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

    Jyrkka

Nano Server does not include a desktop UI

  • February 07, 2018
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Nano Server does not include a desktop UI so you'll need to administer it remotely using PowerShell or WMI. See https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-windows-server-2016-on-amazon-ec2/

    AWS user

Unable to configure.

  • January 11, 2018
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Despite the review from Anupam, I was also unable to RDP in via a jump server on the same VPC.

    samdanishaik

Cannot RDP into it

  • November 19, 2017
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Tried everything, but failed to rdp into it.I have tried base edition i was able to rdp into it. It is better to remove it from ami's.

    Anupam

answer to above

  • August 23, 2017
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

You need to be in the an instance of the same VPC to be able to do RDP. needless to say, you need to have the RDP-HTTP port active on both the nano instance and the instance you do administration through.
instances on your VPN that is connected to the VPC through peering wont work.

    Tim

Unsable - no RDP

  • August 17, 2017
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Same experience as other person. After instantiating, cannot connect with RDP. Not a Security Group or administrator password issue, as have checked both.

    Naphtali Gilead

Can't connect using RDP

  • January 19, 2017
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Tried multiple instances.
Passes 2/2 status checks.
Able to retrieve the Administrator password, but unable to connect using RDP.
Tried restarts.
Nothing works...
This instance isn't usable at all.

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