Amazon Web Services

Amazon just decided to wage war for the enterprise messaging market by announcing Amazon WorkMail, a new cloud-based mail service that will compete with Microsoft Exchange Online and Google Gmail.

Russell Smiths shares simple steps for assigning elastic IP addresses to Amazon EC2 instances.

Russell Smith shows us an easy way to configure Amazon Web Services security groups so that EC2 VPC instances can communicate with each other.

Russell Smith shows us how to get DNS resolution working for Active Directory by creating a new DHCP options set in Amazon Web Services.

Learn how to provision a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM with a static private IP address in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), with the help of Windows PowerShell.

Russell Smith shows us how to provision a Windows Server instance in Amazon Web Services using PowerShell in this handy how-to article.

Our interview with Amazon Web Services Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr concludes with a discussion of Amazon WorkSpaces and CloudFormation.

Unfamiliar with AWS but looking to embrace the cloud? Our two-part interview with Amazon’s Jeff Barr begins with an AWS cloud primer for Windows Server admins.

Learn the basics of configuring VMs on Amazon’s cloud platform, including how to get WS2012 running in a VM and more.