Windows Server 2012 now runs in Amazon’s cloud
November 20, 2012
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.
Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud, and take advantage of improved management features and new versions of IIS and the .Net framework. AWS isn’t the only provider whose cloud can run Microsoft’s new server operating system. The OS can already be installed on Microsoft’s own Azure cloud and Rackspace also offers a number of different configurations on its platform.
The operating system is available in AWS data centers around the world, and enterprises can choose between 31 Windows Server 2012 virtual images. They support 19 different languages and have been prepackaged with SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, Tom Rizzo, general manager for the Windows team at AWS, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday…
Windows Server 2012 became generally available in September, and includes the Internet Information Services (IIS) 8.0 web server, version 4.5 of the .Net framework and improved management using PowerShell. With Windows PowerShell 3.0 administrators can for the first time handle any management task using the command line interface, and in the process save time by automating more and more tasks, according to Microsoft…
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