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Sun’s OpenSolaris available on Amazon Web Services, starting today!

Great news: Sun’s opensolaris is available on Amazon Web Services, starting today!
This means that Sun customers can have their lovely OpenSolaris at low costs, and with a better flexibility, using Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform.
Good move, Amazon and Sun!

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Posted on : May 05 2008
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2 People have left comments on this post

May 23, 2008 - 06:05:34

Would this mean I can use Amazon Web Services with PostgreSQL, or other DBs shipped with OpenSolaris? (By the way, support for PostgreSQL on Solaris is available from Sun.)

May 23, 2008 - 06:05:34
simone said:

You can use everything you normally use on OpenSolaris installed on a local machine :-)