Azure will run Windows servers and the .Net framework in the cloud as a hosted, pay-as-you go service. It will be competing with Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud, which has just left beta this past week, and the announcement of the availability to have Windows Server instances running on the EC2 cloud.
Amazon EC2 has proved to be very efficient for developers and startups to deploy their infrastructure in the cloud with Linux environments, and now the addition of being able to run Windows Servers definitely opens up for different markets. Let’s see exactly how Windows Azure evolves in the coming months, and how well does it competes and differentiates itself from EC2.
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