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Hyper-V Can Now Manage Amazon Storage Gateway
Handy for virtualisation junkies who enjoy mixing platforms: you can now use Hyper-V to manage the Amazon Storage Gateway, an on-premises and cloud appliance which lets you manage Amazon storage. Interesting. [Amazon Web Services Blog]
AWS Managment Console App Hits iOS
Back in early January, Amazon released an Android management console app for Amazon Web Services. There’s now an iOS equivalent, offering the same range of basic management services — handy for quick service checks and changes. [iTunes App Store via AWS Blog]
The Constant Amazon Price Gap
We noted last week that cuts on Amazon Web Services pricing rarely benefited customers using the Sydney data centre as much as those in the US. The latest round of cuts to prices for some of Amazon’s cloud services works out slightly differently: the price difference remains constant.
AWS Diagnostics Tracks Virtual Windows Server Performance
Amazon Web Services can run a number of Windows Server platforms (including Windows Server 2012) as virtual machines. A new automated diagnostics tool helps troubleshoot Windows Server VMs, letting managers check a range of parameters that might cause server or application performance issues.



























