Amazon said on Wednesday that it plans to offer its cloud computing customers the option of running Microsoft's Windows Server operating system as well as its SQL Server database. Starting sometime ...

Amazon's EC2 service yesterday went into full production mode. The cloud computing platform shed its beta label and, in so doing, gained a service level agreement. These changes mark EC2's transition ...

Lots of news from Microsoft as of late, ey? Their new pilot program, The Microsoft Windows Server License Mobility Pilot, allows customers with Enterprise Agreements to migrate their existing Windows ...

Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted infrastructure service for developers will expand its choice of operating systems and databases to include https://www ...

After my previous post, “Cloud to boost proprietary software use?,” Tim Bray questioned whether the pricing comparison of “WebSphere/SUSE vs. JBoss/RHEL on EC2 was a transient anomaly.” JBoss’ Rich ...

Hot on the heels of the VMware deal, Amazon launched Server Migration Service (SMS), a tool that migrates virtual machines running in VMware environment to the cloud. This new service enables ...

Brien shows how to perform Windows Server core deployments in AWS without having to build your own custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI). If you have ever deployed a Windows instance in Amazon EC2, then ...

With the launch of Windows Server 2016 three months ago, Microsoft gave its users the ability to use the Docker engine to run containers on Windows server. This meant developers could now package ...

The successful migration from purely private to public and hybrid cloud arrangements has substantially increased the level of confidence IT administrators have in the cloud. And among the top cloud ...

After earlier detailing needed planning, Brien goes to the next step: an in-place upgrade of the Windows Server OS as it relates to AWS EC2. In my previous blog post in this series, I talked about ...