The jungle is listening to developers. Amazon has added two of the most requested features by developers to its Elastic Compute Cloud: Windows instances and a service-level agreement for Linux users.
The new Windows services include IIS, a C# wrapper for Amazon's cloud APIs, and the ability to run SQL Server.
Jeff Barr, senior Web services evangelist at Amazon, said that the company's Web services have now surpassed its other Web holdings in terms of bandwidth usage. “Web services bandwidth has expanded beyond that of all of Amazon's other stuff combined. There are 22 billion objects stored in S3 and over 400,000 registered AWS users,” said Barr. All of these milestones occurred before Amazon's EC2 was even out of beta.
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