The book I read to research this post was Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Microsoft Windows Guide which was a very good book which I downloaded for free from kindle. Amazon EC2 or Elastic Compute Cloud which is basically a cloud version of a company server can be used with either linux or windows server 2008. If you use the Release 2 version the activation is done automatically when you go on the internet. A lot of companies like to install wordpress and MySQL which work together to make potentially a good website and both now come in windows versions. Amazon uses AMI's or Amazon Machines Instances which is basically a partition where your operating system and data is installed. Don't forget you only pay for what you use and there is no minimum payment so if you only use minimal storage it may qualify for free tierage. A benefit of EC2 is you are only paying a reasonable amount every month rather having to have several servers and a complex network which obviously would cost a lot of money. It does say in this book it is unlikely to be more than a few pounds a month which I think is quite reasonable. Something I'll mention is by default using EC2 is set to you using a server farm in the Eastern USA so ie if you wanted to use the one in Singapore you would have to select that. You might be interested to know I have done 2 blogs called Hybrid Computing & Cloud Computing which I think you'll find interesting at http://scratbag.me
That is my main computing blog which has over 500 posts.
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