Re:$50 AWS Credit for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on EC2
by powertower on Sunday April 08, 2012 @02:32PM
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Does anyone have the details on how Amazon is licensing Windows Server / on what terms?
Is the OS licensed to Amazon, to the customer, is this a custom licensing term deal from Microsoft, am I supposed to provide the serial key, how is activation handled, etc?
Is Amazon "renting" the OS? How is this possible?
The only thing I've been able to locate is this...
> Q. When I import a VM of Windows Server 2003 or 2008, who is responsible for supplying the operating system license?
> When you launch an imported VM using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or 2008, you will be charged standard instance hour rates for Amazon EC2 running the appropriate Windows Server version, which includes the license to utilize that operating system within Amazon EC2. You are responsible for ensuring that all other installed software is properly licensed.
Re:$50 AWS Credit for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on EC2
by PaulHoule on Sunday April 08, 2012 @10:15AM
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That ain't bad, even used as directed.
If you've got some reason to run a desktop app in the cloud, setting up Windows in EC2 and connecting to it with RDP is as easy as falling off a log -- for Windows, MacOS and Linux clients.
You certainly can connect to a Linux X desktop in EC2 from any of those platforms but it's much more trouble to set up, even on Linux.
Re:$50 AWS Credit for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on EC2
by option_greek on Sunday April 08, 2012 @11:40AM
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On demand small instance will cost you approx $83 per month on 100% usage. A micro instance is free for new users. You can calculate most of the costs using their calculator:
Is the OS licensed to Amazon, to the customer, is this a custom licensing term deal from Microsoft, am I supposed to provide the serial key, how is activation handled, etc?
Is Amazon "renting" the OS? How is this possible?
The only thing I've been able to locate is this...
> Q. When I import a VM of Windows Server 2003 or 2008, who is responsible for supplying the operating system license?
> When you launch an imported VM using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or 2008, you will be charged standard instance hour rates for Amazon EC2 running the appropriate Windows Server version, which includes the license to utilize that operating system within Amazon EC2. You are responsible for ensuring that all other installed software is properly licensed.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#When_I_import_a_VM_of_Window...
Amazon CloudFront, Elastic MapReduce, ElastiCache, Route 53, S3, EC2, SQS, Simple EDI, VPC, AWS Data Transfer, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, SES, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, SimpleDB, and Simple Notification Service $50.00
Looks like it is limited to Windows to me.
If you've got some reason to run a desktop app in the cloud, setting up Windows in EC2 and connecting to it with RDP is as easy as falling off a log -- for Windows, MacOS and Linux clients.
You certainly can connect to a Linux X desktop in EC2 from any of those platforms but it's much more trouble to set up, even on Linux.
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html