tag:,2009:/1/tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.12265- 2009-11-23T18:11:07Z Comments for Amazon's EC2 Comes Out Of Beta - Now Supports Windows Movable Type 4.23-en tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.12265 2008-10-23T16:09:21Z 2008-10-23T18:13:00Z Amazon's EC2 Comes Out Of Beta - Now Supports Windows Just one day after Rackspace announced its challenger to Amazon's suite of cloud computing services, Amazon announced that it is taking its EC2 cloud computing service out of beta and that EC2 will now feature support for Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server. Until today, EC2 only supported a number of Linux distributions and... Frederic Lardinois windows_in_cloud_aws.jpgJust one day after Rackspace announced its challenger to Amazon's suite of cloud computing services, Amazon announced that it is taking its EC2 cloud computing service out of beta and that EC2 will now feature support for Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server. Until today, EC2 only supported a number of Linux distributions and OpenSolaris. Amazon will now also offer a Service Level Agreement for EC2 and promises an availability of 99.95%.

]]> Amazon's cloud computing evangelist Jeff Barr also announced a few new features that are now in private alpha testing and which will be released to the public 2009. These include a management console, load balancing for multiple EC2 instances, automatic scaling, and a cloud monitoring service that will give users a real time view of the state of their EC2 instances.

Windows in the Cloud

aws_logo_oct08.pngGiven how many companies rely on Windows servers to run their business, adding support for this operating system makes good sense for Amazon. The pricing for these Windows services, however, is considerably higher than that for running Linux instances on EC2.

As Mary Jo Foley notes, Amazon will also attend Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference next week, which is interesting, given that Microsoft is also expected to unveil its own cloud computing platform at this conference.

]]> tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.12265-comment:114855 Comment from mando magazine on 2008-10-23 mando magazine http://mandomagazine.blogspot.com Thats good........i geuss!!!

when i go to college maybe i will start to learn what some of this stuff is.

anyway, it seems like alot of web companies have to be compatible with windows in some type of way. (duh!)

]]> 2008-10-23T17:43:42Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2008://1.12265-comment:114869 Comment from Roger Jennings on 2008-10-23 Roger Jennings http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com For more but concise details about EC3, Windows and SQL Server versions, and pricing, see: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/amazon-web-services-announces-sla-plus.html

--rj

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