Amazon Web Services' has added yet another feature, this time unveiling the ability to import and export Windows Server 2012 images to EC2. AWS says it “will provide the appropriate Microsoft Windows Server license key for the imported image” and that “Your on-premises key will not be used in the cloud and you are free to use …

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Friday 7th March 2014 10:05 GMT Anonymous Coward

Azure recently overtook AWS to become the largest cloud Windows Server hoster...

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1. Friday 7th March 2014 13:18 GMT Nick Ryan
  
  Azure recently overtook AWS to become the largest cloud Windows Server hoster...
  
  Really? Sources please.
  
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  1. Friday 7th March 2014 18:12 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/Microsoft-overtakes-Amazon-in-hosting/8570/Default.aspx
    
    Faster too:
    
    http://www.cio.co.uk/news/supplier-management/microsoft-azure-overtakes-amazon-cloud-in-performance-tests/
    
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    1. Friday 7th March 2014 18:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
      
      "http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/Microsoft-overtakes-Amazon-in-hosting/8570/Default.aspx"
      
      if this 'true' then it merely demonstrates how successful Linux is on AWS
      
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  2. Saturday 8th March 2014 03:48 GMT Tom Samplonius
    
    Apparently Azure has 23,400 cloud hosting servers as opposed to 22,600.
    
    Azure has a lead of 1,000 servers. But most shocking is how small the numbers are. Most Fortune 500s have more servers than Azure are claiming to be used for hosting web sites across ALL OF THEIR CUSTOMERS.
    
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  3. Monday 10th March 2014 12:10 GMT You have not yet created a handle
    
    Anything to do with the 300,000 servers implemented to support XBOX Live??
    
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2. Saturday 8th March 2014 03:40 GMT Tom Samplonius
  
  "Azure recently overtook AWS to become the largest cloud Windows Server hoster..."
  
  Amazing. I didn't even know you could use Windows OSes on AWS. When did they do that?
  
  And since Amazon never even includes revenue numbers for AWS (revenue is categorized as "Other"), and certainly doesn't provide any services breakdown, how exactly did someone find this out?
  
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