Amazon EC2 with Windows 2008 R2 -


A new Windows 2k8 R2 image is now available on Amazon. I have two questions about this:

  1. It does not look like 32-bit (short) images are available, is this right?
  2. From a program standpoint, what benefits will I get on standard Windows images? 1 Windows Server 2008 R2 only supports 64-bit architecture.

    1 Windows Server 2008 R2 only supports 64-bit architecture. See System requirements:

    There is a small example in Amazon which is 64-bit, so why do you need to use bigger or higher and they do not allow you to launch R2 on micro installation , Even in spite of subtle examples, 64-bit may be possible, possibly due to performance reasons.

    2 Your second question is Acer:

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