Windows Server on AWS

Flexible, scalable compute capacity for Microsoft Applications

Easily manage and secure Windows workloads

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Amazon Web Services helps you build, deploy, scale, and manage Microsoft applications quickly, easily, more securely and more cost-effectively. For corporate IT applications, AWS gives you a cloud platform that helps run Microsoft applications like SharePoint, Dynamics and Exchange in a more secure, easily managed, high performance approach. For business owners, AWS gives you fully managed database service to run Microsoft SQL Server, which helps you build web, mobile and custom business applications. For Microsoft developers, Amazon EC2 for Windows Server provides a flexible and agile development platform, deeply integrated with Visual Studio and .NET to help accelerate development cycles.

Run Corporate Applications in the Cloud

Easily Manage your Windows Server Applications

AWS provides a comprehensive set of management tools for your Microsoft Windows Server workloads. EC2 Run Command helps you automate administrative tasks across a large fleet of instances.

Improve the Security Posture of your Applications

You can ensure your data is protected with end-to-end encryption. AWS Direct Connect and Amazon VPC helps you establish a networking approach with multiple layers of security, including dedicated physical connectivity, logical isolation, security groups, and access control lists.

Reduce Costs with your Microsoft Applications

Reduce Costs Associated with your Microsoft Applications

AWS lets you pay only for the resources you use and scale up and down based on demand. AWS helps you save money on your existing Microsoft application investments with options to bring your own licenses (BYOL). For new applications, you can also purchase Windows Server licenses with your EC2 Instance purchase.

Get World-Class End-to-End Support for your business

There is no compression algorithm for experience. AWS Support and AWS Professional Services are some of the most experienced professionals in the industry on running Microsoft applications in the cloud.

Line of Business Applications

Rapidly Deploy and Scale New Business Applications

AWS Elastic Beanstalk helps you deploy and scale applications quickly and easily. AWS CloudFormation lets you build custom applications faster with prebuilt templates. Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) let you use predefined software instances for the most common Microsoft Applications.

Flexible Purchasing Options Simplify Procurement

You can purchase Microsoft software licenses including Windows Server and SQL Server directly through AWS. You can also bring your own licenses for the Microsoft applications you already own and Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts will help you maintain license compliance.

Deploy Applications on Fully Managed Infrastructure

Amazon RDS provides a fully managed database service for SQL Server that is high performance, highly durable and highly available. Amazon EC2 Windows provides highly scalable, easily managed, flexible compute infrastructure that supports all your Microsoft applications.

Develop and Deploy New Applications

Build Microsoft Applications Faster

AWS Elastic Beanstalk helps you quickly and easily deploy and scale applications built on .NET, Java, PHP, node.js, Python, Ruby, and Docker. AWS CloudFormation and AWS CodeDeploy let you build and deploy custom configurations quickly and easily.

Leverage Familiar Tools

AWS provides a .NET SDK and Toolkit for Visual Studio to help you quickly and easily build new applications.

Automate with a DevOps approach

AWS OpsWorks helps you build a DevOps methodology with automated package installations, database setups, and Chef code deployment.

Leverage a Hybrid Cloud Approach

You can use AWS as a natural extension of your data center as part of your hybrid cloud strategy. AWS Direct Connect and Amazon VPC help provide the networking foundation to create a dedicated, private connection between your data center and AWS that is isolated and secure. AWS Directory Service lets you extend your Active Directory policies to your AWS solution.