Amazon widens .NET to catch Windows cloud developers
April 9, 2013
Grazed from The Register. Author: Jack Clark.
Amazon has broadened the ways in which .NET users can fiddle with its platform-as-a-service cloud AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The expansion of the technology was announced on Tuesday and sees Elastic Beanstalk for .NET now support Amazon’s enterprise-focused Virtual Private Cloud technology. It follows an announcement by Amazon last week that saw it cut the cost of running Windows on its cloud by up to 26 per cent.
Elastic Beanstalk is Amazon’s free platform-as-a-service – a technology that taps into common IaaS tech like scalable storage and compute, while also automatically doing load balancing and resource provisioning…
The service "allows you to easily deploy and manage .NET applications on AWS. Because Elastic Beanstalk leverages Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, you can run .NET applications with minimal changes," the company wrote. Elastic Beanstalk .NET apps can also now be integrated with Bezos & Co’s Amazon Relational Database Service, and be customized with YAML configuration files…
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