Overview

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server is a fast and dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform. Amazon EC2 enables you to run compatible Windows-based solutions on AWS' high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform.

Highlights

Amazon EC2 makes it easy to start and manage your Windows-based instances.
Amazon EC2 running Windows Server provides seamless integration with existing Amazon EC2 features like Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic-Load Balancing, and Elastic IPs.
You can manage your Amazon EC2 resources using our web service APIs. We provide the AWS SDK for .NET that enables you to call AWS infrastructure services.

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Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Base for STIG compliance

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Type	Cost
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes	$0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage

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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

Version release notes

Changes:

AWSPowerShell v4.1.694
AWS NVMe v1.6.0
cfn-init v2.0.31
EC2 Launch v1.3.2005065
SSM v3.3.1230.0
Windows Security Updates current to November 12th 2024

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Usage instructions

Please visit this following page for more information on using Windows: http://thinkwithwp.com/windows/

Resources

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Windows and .Net Developer Center

Microsoft License Mobility

EC2 Windows STIG AMIs

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