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1. Wait, I Can Run Windows on AWS?

Ryan Pothecary1  
(1)
Tonyrefail, UK
 

I was speaking to a customer. We were talking about a plan to migrate thousands of Microsoft servers currently running in the company’s data centers to AWS. At one point, the customer said, “I’ve been working on AWS projects for the last 18 months and only found out last week that you can run Microsoft servers on AWS.”

I put my headset on mute, screamed, took a moment, clicked the headset back off mute again.

Sadly, I’ve done that more than once. In fact, if you are ever on a call with me and I go on mute, I’m either on a train or screaming.

The scream isn’t directed at ...

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