{"id":4716,"date":"2012-11-21T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2456144"},"modified":"2012-11-21T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T17:58:00","slug":"aws-offers-windows-server-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/aws-offers-windows-server-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Offers Windows Server 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an exercise in vendor neutrality \u2013 well, kinda \u2013 it\u2019s not exactly altruistic \u2013 Amazon Web Services is now offering a bunch of pre-built virtual instances of the Windows Server 2012 operating system, the server version of Windows 8, so Windows users can hew to Microsoft\u2019s upgrade roadmap and still adopt Amazon\u2019s cloud all at the same time.<br \/>\nThe addition, which includes SQL Server, was announced this week by Amazon\u2019s Windows team leader Tom Rizzo, a recent refugee from Redmond.<br \/>\nAmazon already supports Windows Server 2003 R2, 2008 and 2008 R2 but Server 2012 can be used with Amazon\u2019s Elastic Beanstalk automatic application provisioning and deployment service as well as EC2. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2456144\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exercise in vendor neutrality \u2013 well, kinda \u2013 it\u2019s not exactly altruistic \u2013 Amazon Web Services is now offering a bunch of pre-built virtual instances of the Windows Server 2012 operating system, the server version of Windows 8, so Window&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}