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Windows on Amazon EC2 arrives for all

Posted by johnb | Posted in Uncategorised | Posted on 24-10-2008

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Still labelled as ‘beta’ Microsoft Windows 2003 has made its debut on Amazon EC2 with prices ranging from $0.125 per hour up to $1.2 per hour for a plain Windows environment whilst Windows plus SQL servers ranges from $1.1 per hour up to $2.4 per hour.

More importantly Amazon EC2 has removed its beta label (for Linux) after 2 years of operation and a much required SLA has been provided with a 99.95% availability with service credits provided in the event of availability falling below this level.

They’re also talking about stuff that’s going to be coming in the future  – a management console, load balancing and auto scaling! Way cool!

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Madhanaya said on 16-03-2009

This may not be revelant but i figured i’d post this anyway. If you’re using ubuntu 8.10 you may be in for some issues with the network manager. For some unknown reason it stops functioning. You will need to manually set you’re resolv.conf with your ISP’s DNS servers. That file is located in /etc/network/resolv.conf

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