At the time of my first post on Moving to the Cloud, Amazon announced new Windows Server 2008 EC2 instances, based on EBS instead of S3. I've been playing with these for some time now and must say they resolve most of the issues I have with Windows Server 2003 instances: Launching an ins... [More]

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During this summer my development computer decided to develop hardware failures and sure signs of its age and demise. As a developer, my first thought was to buy a new state of the art computer... but after a second thought I've decided to make an experiment. Instead of buying a desktop comput... [More]

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Microsoft recently published Windows Azure pricing, which resulted in a number of comparisons made. John Foley claimed that Microsoft Beats Amazon regarding the price of Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon cloud services: "Amazon charges 12.5 cents per hour for a bare bones Windows Server instanc... [More]

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