Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) is
offering Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server in its
EU Region.
Amazon said users will be able to access Windows-based compute
resources for Europe and run them on the Amazon EC2 cloud. The
platform supports ASP.net, Ajax, Silverlight, and Internet
Information Server (IIS), SQL Server Express and SQL Server
Standard databases. With these announcements, Amazon EC2 running
Windows is now joining Linux/Unix-based Amazon EC2 environments.
The software is priced on a pay-as-you-go pricing model, which
Amazon said allows users to pay only for the compute capacity that
they use.
Peter De Santis, general manager of Amazon EC2 said, "Businesses
and developers can now access and manage all of their compute
resources, whether Windows-based or Linux/Unix-based, close to
their European customers, partners, and other computing services
including Amazon S3."
Amazon has also introduced the
AWS Management Console, which
will provide support for Amazon EC2 in the EU enabling developers
to manage their Amazon EC2 resources in the EU Region using a
point-and-click web interface.
