Amazon has announced that they are adding support for Windows and MS SQL Server to their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

We have been waiting for Amazon to announce something like this for quite some time now. It was bound to happen sooner or later. The feature is currently in closed beta, but Amazon promises that you will be able to use Windows Server instances in EC2 before the end of 2008.

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Have you ever wondered what technology some of the really big websites use? The likes of Digg, YouTube, Myspace and so on? There is a very interesting website called High Scalability that is dedicated to, as they put it themselves, “building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.” They collect information about the architecture of high-traffic websites [...]

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