Amazon Web Services Adds Microsoft Windows Server Instances to Free Usage Tier
SEATTLE, Jan 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company
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today announced that customers can now run their Microsoft Windows
Server applications within the AWS Free Usage Tier — a program designed
to help new AWS customers get started in the cloud. Developers and
businesses with Windows Server applications can take advantage of 750
hours of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Micro Instance usage
per month, at no charge for a one year period. With the expansion of the
AWS Free Usage Tier, Windows developers now have access to the same free
resources on AWS as Linux developers — providing the ability to launch
new applications, test existing applications in the cloud, or gain
hands-on experience with AWS. For more details and information on
getting started with Windows on AWS, visit
http://aws.amazon.com/windows/ .
“Our customers want the flexibility to choose how they build their
applications without being locked into a particular programming model,
language, or operating system. We continue to focus on increasing that
flexibility,” said Peter De Santis, General Manager of Amazon EC2.
“Through our continued work with Microsoft, Windows developers now have
an opportunity to see, at no cost, how they can leverage Amazon Web
Services’ scalable and cost-effective computing environment.”
Organizations of all sizes are taking advantage of the breadth and
capabilities of running Windows Server applications on AWS. For example,
when redesigning Treasury.gov, which is powered by AWS, the United
States Department of Treasury integrated their current Microsoft
SharePoint 2010 workloads to improve technology efficiencies, provide
increased collaboration capabilities, and comply with the Federal Cloud
First Initiative. Knovolo, a mobile marketing firm, runs their Windows
Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server applications on AWS. Integrating these
applications with Amazon EC2 and Amazon CloudFront services to develop,
manage and deploy their mobile marketing application has allowed them to
reduce costs and scale as needed by paying only for the capacity used.
The AWS Free Usage Tier addition joins a number of recent AWS service
extensions to support Windows customers, including Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 R2 on the high power Cluster Compute instances, Microsoft
SQL 2012 beta preview on AWS, Microsoft BizSpark Licenses on AWS, and
support for Microsoft Windows HPC clusters using Amazon EC2 instances.
To learn more about the AWS Free Usage tier, please visit
http://aws.amazon.com/free/
and to get started with Windows on AWS, visit
http://aws.amazon.com/windows/ .
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key
infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services — now
widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud
computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and
turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no
longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or
months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon’s
expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business
needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon
Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost
infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands
of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190
countries around the world. AWS offers over 21 different services,
including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to customers from data center
locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan and Singapore.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc.
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, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics Computers; Home
Garden; Toys, Kids Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes Jewelry; Health
Beauty; Sports Outdoors; and Tools, Auto Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. The new latest generation Kindle is the lightest, most
compact Kindle ever and features the same 6-inch, most advanced
electronic ink display that reads like real paper even in bright
sunlight. Kindle Touch is a new addition to the Kindle family with an
easy-to-use touch screen that makes it easier than ever to turn pages,
search, shop, and take notes — still with all the benefits of the most
advanced electronic ink display. Kindle Touch 3G is the top of the line
e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Touch,
with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G. Kindle Fire is the
Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and
web browsing with all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud,
Whispersync, Amazon Silk (Amazon’s new revolutionary cloud-accelerated
web browser), vibrant color touch screen, and powerful dual-core
processor.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including
www.amazon.com ,
www.amazon.co.uk ,
www.amazon.de ,
www.amazon.co.jp ,
www.amazon.fr ,
www.amazon.ca ,
www.amazon.cn ,
www.amazon.it ,
and
www.amazon.es .
As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include
Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management’s expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More
information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s
financial results is included in Amazon.com’s
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most
recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
SOURCE: Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon.com, Inc.
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