Bangalore:  Enterprises can now take advantage of improved management features as they can run their Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud.

Amazon’s is the only provider whose cloud can run Microsoft's new server operating system.

 In a blog post Tom Rizzo, general manager for the Windows team at AWS wrote,”The operating system is available in AWS data centers around the world, and enterprises can choose between 31 Windows Server 2012 virtual images. They support 19 different languages and have been prepackaged with SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 became generally available in September, and includes the Internet Information Services (IIS) 8.0 web server, version 4.5 of the .Net framework and improved management using PowerShell.”

Windows PowerShell 3.0 will now enable the administrators to handle any management task using the command line interface, and save time during the process by automating more and more tasks, according to Microsoft.

Windows Server 2012 has also included a free tier of AWS services which will allow the new customers to run the OS and other services for free for a period of one year. This will allow the enterprises to evaluate Windows Server 2012 and then move to a production environment when they are ready.

Running Windows Server on the AWS cloud costs from US$0.02 per hour with the company's on-demand pricing.