This is some really great stuff that amazon has released since the boom towards cloud computing. After Linux based clouds, now Windows based clouds are available and ready to perform. It’s a great opportunity for developers to be able to create application for a cloud. I’ll be definitely trying it out any where soon with a small web application to see the performance achieved over a period of time and give some feedback about this new service.

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 is a fast and dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform, including ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight^TM, and Internet Information Server (IIS). Amazon EC2 enables you to run any compatible Windows-based solution on AWS’ high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform. Common Windows use cases include website and web-service hosting, high-performance computing (HPC) and data processing, media transcoding, distributed testing, ASP.NET application hosting, and any other application requiring Windows software. Amazon EC2 also now supports the SQL Server® Express and SQL Server Standard databases, and makes those offerings available to customers on an hourly basis.

Read more: http://aws.amazon.com/windows/

Tags: .NET, Amazon, Cloud, SQL Server, Windows 2003