Amazon Web Services releases Windows cloud computing development kit
Updated: 2009-11-16
Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com's cloud computing services division, announced a new .Net software development kit to help Windows software developers make programs for Amazon's EC2 platform.
Users of the software development kit will be able to make solutions for Amazon infrastructure services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon SimpleDB and Amazon Simple Storage Service. The kit will come as a single, downloadable package, and will include templates for Visual Studio projects, C# code samples, the Amazon Web Services .NET library and documentation.
"The AWS SDK for .NET makes it even easier for Windows developers to build .NET applications that tap into the cost-effective, scalable, and reliable AWS cloud," said Amazon Web Services in a statement.
Amazon Web Services first launched EC2 in 2006. The platform is designed to improve the ease of web-scaling computing for developers.
Analysts say this new development kit, its first to aim specifically at Windows developers, may be an attempt to compete with the release of Microsoft's new Azure cloud computing platform on Monday. As a Microsoft platform, Azure will also aim at Windows developers and users.
