My article “ Linux Amazon EC2 tutorial: How to set up an EC2 instance ” shows you how to set up Amazon Web Services’ compute service if you use Linux (specifically, Ubuntu Linux).

Amazon EC2 leaves beta, adds Windows; Rackspace joins cloud Now out of beta, Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service is ready for production … ...

Amazon has launched an initiative for Microsoft customers to bring their Windows Server licenses to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform.

Reportedly, running EC2 Instances on your own Windows Server licenses works exactly the same as any other instances , including their ability to use Amazon EC2 features like Amazon Elastic Block ...

“ePlus is proud to receive the AWS Service Delivery designation for Amazon EC2 on Windows Server,” said Justin Mescher, vice president of cloud and data center solutions at ePlus.

Whereas Windows Azure is a platform-as-a-service cloud, giving developers the tools they need to build and deploy Web applications, Amazon EC2 is primarily an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is dropping the price of Windows On-Demand EC2 instances up to 26 percent, which is another clear sign of the price wars in the cloud computing market. The news follows ...

Amazon plans to add support for Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server to its EC2 cloud computing service.

Key point to take away: Holding the product version and support level constant across an on-premise license and Amazon EC2 instance, the price premium of Windows vs. RHEL, if X percent for on ...