http://simonwillison.net/2008-10-01T09:16:40+00:00Simon Willison2008-10-01T09:16:40+00:002008-10-01T09:16:40+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/1/amazon/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/10/coming-soon-ama.html?cid=132920409#comments">Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows</a></strong></p> It’s not instantly clear if you need to source your own Windows licenses or if the license comes as part of the hourly VM charge. If it’s the latter, I can see this being fantastically useful for both automated and manual cross-browser testing—throw up a Windows VM for just as long as you need to run your tests, running them through rdesktop. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazon">amazon</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/browsertesting">browsertesting</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ec2">ec2</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rdesktop">rdesktop</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/windows">windows</a></p>