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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!

More information here