Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will now offer the OpenSolaris Operating System to its customers as well as give users access to MySQL premium technical support. Amazon EC2 is a Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use.

"Support for OpenSolaris and MySQL on Amazon EC2 expands the reach and convenience for developers who want to quickly deploy their applications on the Web by taking advantage of Amazon Web Services," said Rich Green, executive vice president of Software, Sun. "Sun aims to continue to offer additional options to use and deploy our open source platforms - covering the spectrum from small home-grown installations through to on-site data centers and hosted environments such as Amazon EC2."

OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2

Currently available by invitation only, OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 beta offers customers key features of the OpenSolaris OS, such as Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), running on Amazon's cloud computing platform. A select group of software vendors are already offering their solutions via Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2, including GigaSpaces, Rightscale, Thoughtworks and Zmanda. Sun is also making available the GlassFish application server.

OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 is available for no additional charge. Customers pay only for Amazon EC2 usage, which starts at $0.10 per CPU-hour.

To request an invitation to join the program, visit http://www.sun.com/amazon. Free technical support for OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 beta participants is provided by Sun and Amazon EC2 support is provided by Amazon Web Services.

MySQL Technical Support

In response to customer demand, Sun is offering MySQL production support for Amazon EC2 users as part of a premium MySQL Enterprise subscription. This new offering means Amazon EC2 customers can be fully supported by the MySQL database experts at Sun with 24x7 production support and professional service. Web developers and IT organizations can deliver database driven Web-scale computing in the "cloud" and scale up and out by leveraging MySQL replication on Amazon EC2.

"Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 has allowed our business to comfortably 'Pay-as-we-Grow,'" said Carl Mercier, founder and CEO, Defensio. "Commercial Web services like ours can really take advantage of Amazon EC2's cost-effective scalability now backed by the skilled advice and peace-of-mind of Sun's MySQL database experts."

MySQL can be downloaded for a wide variety of platforms at: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads.

More Information

Learn more about Sun's product support for Amazon EC2 by visiting http://www.sun.com/amazon and http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/ec2.html [...read more...]

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