Monday, November 21, 2011

Free "Getting Started on Microsoft Windows With AWS" Webinar from Amazon

Amazon Web Services Blog - Webinar: Getting Started on Microsoft Windows With AWS

"We're going to be running a free webinar on December 8th at 9 AM PST.

Designed for business and technical decision makers with an interest in migrating Windows Server and Windows Server applications to the AWS cloud, the webinar will address the following topics:

  • Support for the Microsoft .NET platform.
  • Ways for you to take advantage of your existing Microsoft investments and skill set to run Windows Server applications such as Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, and SQL Server on the AWS Cloud without incurring any additional Microsoft licensing costs.
  • The AWS pay-as-you go model that allows you to purchase Windows Server computing resources on an hourly basis.
  • An architecture that allows you to quickly and easily scale your Windows Server applications on the AWS Cloud through pre-configured Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to start running fully supported Windows Server virtual machine instances in minutes

..."

I had mentioned recently that I'd never fired up an Amazon virtual machine (Playing with SQL Server 2012 the easy way, via a Microsoft and Amazon partnership for SQL Server 2012 on AWS/EC2 (Think "5 Minutes to Denali"))? Guess they heard me and took pity on my ignorance... lol... Signed up. :P

 

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Playing with SQL Server 2012 the easy way, via a Microsoft and Amazon partnership for SQL Server 2012 on AWS/EC2 (Think "5 Minutes to Denali")

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