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I was crying in my beer about not having a 64-bit box to play with and Peter Verhas suggested I buy time on a 64 bit instance of Windows Server from Amazon EC2. At .52 cents an hour for a large instance virtual 64-bit system I can use to test with seems affordable.

Large Instance 7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform

Until now, small developers did not have the capital to acquire massive compute resources and insure they had the capacity they needed to handle unexpected spikes in load. Amazon EC2  enables any developer to leverage Amazon’s own benefits of massive scale with no up-front investment or performance compromises. Developers are now free to innovate knowing that no matter how successful their businesses become, it will be inexpensive and simple to ensure they have the compute capacity they need to meet their business requirements.

The “Elastic” nature of the service allows developers to instantly scale to meet spikes in traffic or demand. When computing requirements unexpectedly change (up or down), Amazon EC2 can instantly respond, meaning that developers have the ability to control how many resources are in use at any given point in time. In contrast, traditional hosting services generally provide a fixed number of resources for a fixed amount of time, meaning that users have a limited ability to easily respond when their usage is rapidly changing, unpredictable, or is known to experience large peaks at various intervals.

Amazon EC2 Running Microsoft Windows Server & SQL Server

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 or 2008 is a fast and dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform, including ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight™, and Internet Information Server (IIS). Amazon EC2 enables you to run any compatible Windows-based solution on AWS’ high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform. Common Windows use cases include Enterprise Windows-based application hosting, website and web-service hosting, data processing, media transcoding, distributed testing, ASP.NET application hosting, and any other application requiring Windows software. Amazon EC2 also now supports the SQL Server® Express and SQL Server Standard 2005 and 2008 databases, and makes those offerings available to customers on an hourly basis.

Using Amazon EC2 with Windows Server is similar to using Amazon EC2 with any other operating system. Amazon EC2 running Windows Server 2003 or 2008 provides seamless integration with existing Amazon EC2 features like Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic-Load Balancing, and Elastic IPs. Windows instances are available in multiple Availability Zones in all Regions.



Tips & Tricks

[*]Suspended instances are not billed but retains your environment
[*]Uploading to EC2 is FREE till Nov. 2010 (after that there will be a small charge / gig)
[*]Max 2 suspended instances at a time. (Windows Server 2008 64-bit & Ubuntu Linux 64-bit will be my two working/suspended instances)
[*]RDP (Windows Remote Desktop) is a pain to get going becuase you need to download an encrypted admin password before connecting with RDP
[*]You can save a image on the Amazon S3 (storage service) easily from your control panel
[*]SSH is your connection to a Linux instance
[*]You have full root/administrator privileges with your instances
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