Perhaps a bit of an esoteric problem but... I have a SQL Server 2008 instance on EC2 (running on 2008 R2) under heavy load. I'm trying to optimize I/O ...

The diagram below shows a popular EC2 configuration that provides both HA and DR protections in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) that spreads three SQL Server instances across multiple Availability ...

The company said that EC2 running Windows Server or SQL Server will be useful for running ASP.NET Web sites, media transcoding and other Windows-based applications.

GigaOm, in analyzing data from a number of tests, said: "Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) indicated 3.4x better performance on Windows over Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon ...

EU developers now can use Amazon.com's Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to run Windows Server and SQL Server and allow customers access to Windows-based computing resources on the nearly 3-year-old ...

In EC2, a security group is essentially just a software firewall. The default security group rule allows remote access to the instance (SSH for Linux or RDP for Windows). This rule is necessary in ...

Amazon’s EC2 service lets you run any number of Amazon Machine Images (AMI, virtual machines) ... PHP, and MySQL. TorrentFlux is the web frontend for bittorrent in this case.