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Amazon adds Windows, SQL Server to EC2 cloud computing service
Latest from Computerworld —
... from the main tab, one-click AMI bundling on Windows, better key and security group management, and the ability to directly launch remote desktop sessions. The online retailer also disclosed plans to add a Web services management console, load balancing, automatic scaling and cloud monitoring services to the EC2 service over the next year. The management console will let users simplify the process of configuring and operating applications in the Amazon cloud, Amazon said. Users can get a global picture of their cloud computing environment by using a point-and-click Web ...
Amazon battens down the hatches before Microsoft’s cloud launch next week
All about Microsoft —
... . Amazon is supporting both 32- and 64-bit Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with pricing starting at$0.125 per hour, according to the Amazon blog. SQL Server will be available in 64-bit-image form. Amazon also announced via the Amazon Web Services blog that the company is readying other new cloud-infrastructure components, including an interactive management console; automatic scaling and cloud-monitoring services . Microsoft is expected to announce its long-rumored cloud computing platform, one component of will likely be known as ...
Amazon's Linux cloud computing out of beta, joined by Windows
Webware.com —
... A central part of Amazon's online computing foundation is growing up.
The Elastic Compute Cloud, a service that gives customers on-demand access to Linux servers, is now out of beta testing, said Jeff Barr, evangelist for the collection of online options collectively called Amazon Web Services.
"Amazon EC2 is now in full production," Barr said in a blog post Wednesday. And as promised, EC2 now offers Windows in a beta test, joining Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris and Solaris Express Community Edition.
Along with those moves, EC2 now ...
Amazon Opens Windows For All, and EC2 Graduates [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... on its Elastic Compute Cloud in closed beta, has opened the beta service up for all. Even bigger news is the beta tag has been removed from the rest of the EC2 service, and users now have a 99.95 percent up-time service level agreement. Yesterday, Rackspace ran hard to keep up with Amazon’s cloud offerings — ...
And now for the enterprise ...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog —
... but this time there are tools available to CIOs and CTOs that help them to manage their IT budgets very differently. By using infrastructure as a service, basic IT costs are moved from a capital expense to a variable cost, building clearer relationships between expenditures and revenue generating activities. CFOs are especially excited about the premise of this shift. Beyond the marketing push, Amazon is rushing to make its services "enterprise-ready" at a technical level. It has announced today that its computing service, Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, is officially out of ...
Amazon: EC2 is production ready; Will enterprises bite?
Between the Lines —
... Amazon Web Services EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service has dropped the beta tag, added a service level agreement and launched Windows and SQL betas and plans a management console. Add it up and it appears that Amazon is giving prospective enterprise customers most of the things they need to take the e-tailer-turned-cloud player seriously. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels ...
All Eyes On Amazon Today - Infrastructure 2.0 Is The Cloud
Broadband Developments —
... All eys are on Amazon today. This is great news for web services in the cloud. The Infrastructure 2.0 model is moving fast. More on this story as it develops. Can’t help but get excited. I love the speed of provisioning on Amazons services but I’m very skeptical on it’s scale and reliability. This is a classic cost of ownership issue - downtime has been a problem and that costs money folks. Putting that aside I’m very bullish on the innovation for Amazon and their ecosystem of vendors to apporach close to 5-9s fast. ...
Amazon's EC2 Comes Out Of Beta - Now Supports Windows
ReadWriteWeb —
... 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. ...
The Cloud Is Shaping Up. Amazon Beefs Up EC2, Bechtolsheim Shifts His Attention To Arista
TechCrunch —
Cloud computing keeps advancing like rolling thunder. Amazon today announced a major upgrade to its EC2 compute cloud service and Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim has decided to spend more time at his startup ...
Amazon Cloud gains Windows, loses beta
VentureBeat —
... (EC2), which is probably the most prominent environment for running web applications in the Internet cloud, has announced two big moves that should solidify its dominance and increase its appeal to big business users. ...
Amazon: Our cloud is solid as a rock
GMSV —
... , Amazon today declared its Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure ready for prime time , complete with new support for Microsoft’s Windows and SQL Server and plans for other niceties aimed at making big companies more comfortable with the idea of pay-as-you-go computing. Amazon is now offering customers a ...
Amazon: We Promise Our EC2 Cloud Will Only Crash Once A Week (AMZN)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Amazon (AMZN) has moved its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) out of beta, and finally published numbers on what its customers can expect in ...
EC2 out of Beta: Now with Windows Support & More
SitePoint —
... Amazon announced today that EC2 is dropping “beta” status and is now production ready. On top of this they are now committing to a ...
Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) - Amazon’s Linux cloud computing out of beta; offers Windows Server 2003 in the cloud
D' Technology Weblog —
... is now in full production,” Jeff Barr said in a blog post. And as promised, EC2 now offers Windows in a beta test, joining Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris and Solaris Express Community Edition. ...
Is Amazon Ready For The Enterprise? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... With a flurry of announcements in recent weeks, Amazon has extended its cloud computing lead. The beta label’s gone. It can run Windows applications. By ...
AWS Rolls Out Cloud Management And Scalability Features For EC2
TechCrunch —
... a suite of new features for Amazon EC2 which will help users monitor cloud capacity, scale on demand, and spread incoming traffic across multiple web servers. Amazon originally announced these features last fall, but the applications didn't enter public beta until today.
The first feature, ...
