Windows 2008: Scalr edition!

I think we’re all familiar with Windows’ quasi infinite amount of editions, from the Home edition to Professional edition, Starter edition, and Ultimate edition. It seems like Microsoft left out a very important edition though. That’s where we come in.

We’re proud to announce Windows 2008 – Scalable edition! Windows is currently one of the best platforms for transcoding (best codecs, notably), but also for .NET applications and more. And after months of hard work, we’ve made our guest agent (the scalarizr) work on Windows.

A Windows 2008 ‘base’ role is now available in all EC2 regions, that you can use to install software on and use as components of your farms.

Next up will be Apache and MySQL roles for Windows, so you can use the OS for every component in your stack. :-)

Cheers,
Sebastian