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Amazon EC2 Adds Windows Server, SQL to EU Online Lineup
By: Chris Preimesberger
2009-03-03
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EU developers now can use Amazon.com's Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to run Windows Server and SQL Server and allow customers access to Windows-based computing resources on the nearly 3-year-old Amazon Web Services cloud. AWS is the oldest, most established public cloud computing service on the Internet.HANNOVER, GermanyAmazon Web Services, which is rapidly catching up to
Amazon.com's retail division and will soon become the Web 2.0 company's
bread-and-butter business, on March 3 launched a new option for the European
Union region that allows software developers to run Microsoft Windows Server
and Microsoft SQL Server in the cloud.
Developers now can use Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) to run Windows Server
and SQL Server and allow customers access to Windows-based computing resources
on the nearly 3-year-old AWS cloudthe oldest, most established public cloud
service on the Internet.
The AWS Management Console also will provide support for Amazon EC2 in the
European Union, enabling developers to manage their Amazon EC2 resources in the
EU region using a point-and-click Web interface.
Information on when the services will be available in North and South
America wasn't made available at the CeBIT conference held here
March 3 to 8.
Amazon EC2, launched in August 2006, provides resizable computing capacity in
the cloud for businesses and developers. EC2 with Windows immediately became a
standard environment for deploying business applications using the Microsoft
Web Platform, including ASP.NET, AJAX,
Silverlight and IIS (Internet Information Services).
Amazon EC2 also supports the SQL Server Express and SQL Server Standard
databases.
AWS currently has more than 490,000 registered developers. Amazon S3 (Simple
Storage Service) currently contains more than 40 billion objects.
CEO Jeff Bezos said recently Amazon.com's
Web services business is now taking a full two-thirds of the company's
bandwidth online and increasing Amazon.com's revenue in substantial measure.
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