Amazon's free AWS offer now includes Windows Server

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:34

The free tier on Amazon Web Services now includes the use of Windows Server, not just Linux.

Amazon allows organisations to consume up to 750 hours of EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) per month for a year at no charge. This offer has now been extended to included Windows Server instances.

"Our customers want the flexibility to choose how they build their applications without being locked into a particular programming model, language, or operating system. We continue to focus on increasing that flexibility," said Peter De Santis, general manager of Amazon EC2.

"Through our continued work with Microsoft, Windows developers now have an opportunity to see, at no cost, how they can leverage Amazon Web Services' scalable and cost-effective computing environment."

The free tier allows for 613MB of RAM with 32-bit and 64-bit support. Other AWS resources available under a similar arrangement include 30GB of Elastic Block Storage, 5GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, and 15GB of bandwidth aggregated across all AWS services.