Cloud Computing: Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 AMIs Now Available on AWS
June 5, 2014
Grazed from Amazon. Author: Editorial Staff.
If you have been reading this blog for any length of time, you probably know that I sometimes talk about the number of options and choices that you have at your fingertips when you use AWS. You can choose from a broad array of cloud services, run your code on a wide variety of Linux distributions and Windows versions on the instance type that best fits your needs.
In keeping with our tradition, I am happy to announce that we are now making a set of Windows Server 2012 R2 AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) available for use on EC2. These AMIs are available in 19 languages and include a set of PV (paravirtualized) drivers that have been certified by Microsoft for Windows Server 2012 R2…
The AMIs automatically make use of EC2’s Enhanced Networking for higher I/O performance, lower inter-instance latency, and lower CPU utilization when run on R3, C3, and I2 instances. The AMIs are available in several flavors including Server Core, a low maintenance, minimal server installation. This version of Windows also includes many new features; here are just a few that are relevant when running in the cloud on EC2:…
Read more from the source @ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/windows-server-2012-r2-amis-now-available/?tag=viglink128287-20