Archive For March 4, 2009

Changes in the Amazon and Microsoft Clouds Yesterday

Yesterday Amazon Web Services announced availability of Windows and SQL Server under Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in the European region. Running in the EU is important for workloads that need to be near customers in that region or workloads that operate on data that needs to stay in region. The AWS Management Console has been…

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WTIA: Scaling into the Cloud with Amazon Web Services

Earlier this evening I attended the Washington Technology Industry Association event Scaling into the Cloud with Amazon Web Services. Adam Selipsky, VP of Amazon Web Services gave an overview of AWS and was followed by two AWS customers each of which talked about their services and how they use AWS. My rough notes follow. Adam…

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