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  AWS offers free Windows on EC2 (kind of)

  Posted: January 16th, 2012, 3:51pm CET by Digg

  Amazon will let customers run micro-instances of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 for free on its EC2 service starting now, according to a new post to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog. Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts to its cloud platform.