Amazon Web Services Announces SLA Plus Windows Server and SQL Server Betas for EC2
Jeff Barr reports the following about Amazon EC2, Windows 2003 Server, and SQL Server 2005 in his Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities post of 10/23/2008:
- Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone.
- There's now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is now available in beta form on EC2.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 [Express] is now available in beta form on EC2.
- We plan to release an interactive AWS management console.
- We plan to release new load balancing, automatic scaling, and cloud monitoring services.
Additional details:
- [Amazon] provides a C# library that wraps the [Web service] APIs, so that you can build and deploy your applications within .NET.
- [If] you require more than five Windows accounts or need to leverage applications that require LDAP, Kerberos, RADIUS, or other credential services, you must use Windows with Authentication Services.
- Beta level support for Microsoft Windows is now available on EC2, in the form of 32 and 64 bit AMIs.
- Microsoft SQL Server is also available in 64 bit form.
- [Amazon will] be adding support for DevPay in the near future.
Release Notes: Release: Amazon EC2 on 2008-08-08
Articles and Tutorials: Feature Guide: Amazon EC2 Running Windows
Note: It’s curious that Amazon is hosting non-current versions of Windows Server and SQL Server, which isn’t well-advertised on the AWS site. Others are reporting (apparently incorrectly) that the 2008 versions are on line.
Mary Jo Foley chimes in with Amazon battens down the hatches before Microsoft’s cloud launch next week and Werner Vogels posts Using the Cloud to build highly-efficient systems, both of 10/23/2008.
The following is from the AWS Web site’s Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Running Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server (Beta) page.
Pricing for Instances Running Windows Server 2003 with SQL 2005 Server Express
SQL Server Express, Microsoft IIS and ASP.NET can be used on any Amazon EC2 instance running Windows Server for no additional cost.
| Instance Type | Windows | Windows with Authentication Services |
| Standard Small (Default) | $0.125 per hour | $0.25 per hour |
| Standard Large | $0.50 per hour | $0.75 per hour |
| Standard Extra Large | $1.00 per hour | $1.50 per hour |
| High CPU Medium | $0.30 per hour | $0.50 per hour |
| High CPU Extra Large | $1.20 per hour | $2.00 per hour |
Pricing for Instances Running Windows Server 2003 with SQL Server 2005 Standard
| Instance Type | Windows | Windows with Authentication Services |
| Standard Large | $1.10 per hour | $1.35 per hour |
| Standard Extra Large | $2.20 per hour | $2.70 per hour |
| High CPU Extra Large | $2.40 per hour | $3.20 per hour |
Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee. Pricing is per instance-hour of Amazon EC2 consumed for each instance type. Partial instance-hours consumed are billed as full hours.
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