Amazon provides Windows AMIs so it's very easy to set up a Windows Server, it's a matter of minutes. If you run your server using an EBS backed (which I think is now the default standard for Windows) then you can easily take snapshots in order to backup the entire server in one go. Those snapshots can in turn be used as a new EBS volume so you can essentially clone your server very easily. Should your EC2 instance run into problems (maybe the underlying hardware is having a rough day) you can shut it down, detach the EBS volume and attach it to a new instance. It's a bit like moving a hard drive from box to box except you don't have to actually physically move anything...
The whole Amazon stack is very powerful. The concept of having your apps effectively detached from the processing power you need is quite something. You can so very easily boot up new instances of your existing volumes, or increase RAM and CPU capacity in a matter of minutes. I would encourage anyone to have a play using one of the micro instances. They cost next to nothing, and in fact are free up to a limit if you are a new AWS customer. Cheers Stefan On 4 Jan 2011, at 19:46, Richard Steele wrote: > > Did you find a tutorial on how to set up a Windows 2008 server? There's one > online for a non-windows server, but I haven't found one for a Windows 2008 > server. > > Also, I know that Amazon has different levels of guarantee for their s3 > storage, but it seems like having it backed up to a different location would > be wise. Is that easy to accomplish? > > Thanks! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340416 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
