Windows Server 2012 on Amazon Web Service: Stakes and Opportunities for the Users

Henceforth, we are going to talk more about “Windows Wednesdays”. For those unfamiliar, “Windows Wednesdays” recent initiative from Amazon Web Service is a series which aims to help you learn more about Support Windows on AWS (new feature, tidbit or something you may not know about Windows on AWS).
 

Therefore since November 21, 2012 Windows Server 2012 took place into Amazon Web Service as an option for customers in addition to Windows Server 2003 R2, 2008 and 2008 R2 offerings. 

Here are some highlights specific to Windows Server 2012 on Amazon Web Service.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk allows you to focus on building your application, without having to worry about the provisioning and maintenance aspects of your applications. Elastic Beanstalk already supports Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Windows Server 2008 R2 based .NET applications, Windows Server 2012 based .NET applications. Deployapplications from Visual Studio or the AWS Management Console.

.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 Support: to support building applications on Windows with .NET, AWS supports the new .NET framework shipped with Windows Server 2012; .NET 4.5.

In addition, you can deploy to AWS with just a few clicks and can decide whether you want to deploy to EC2 instances or use Elastic Beanstalk as the target for your applications.
To help you get started with Windows Server 2012, here is a quick introduction video from AWS that steps you through the process of creating a Windows Server 2012 instance, expanding the size of the root volume, adding an EBS volume, and connecting to the instance.