Amazon to offer Windows services on EC2

The "cloud" market is certainly getting hotter and hotter. Amazon is making huge inroads into this space and their descision to host services created by Microsoft is testament to the Microsoft arena catching up in this space. The interesting thing about this is that it will increase take-up of cloud services and (this is what I find most exciting) on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. They haven't announced pricing yet, but the price points of the different elements in the AWS stack is pretty compelling, so I'm sure it will be quite reasonable. (continue reading &aquo;)