Last time I started looking at Amazon Web Services and how it differed from Azure. I am going to continue looking at what it can do. Virtual Machines Lets look at what you can do with Virtual Machines. I selected to create a new Virtual Machine (or as AWS calls them an EC2 Instance) First you choose a name for your VM...

I am a big fan of Azure but I know zero about its biggest rival – Amazon Web Services or AWS. So lets sign up for a free trial and see what it can do. The AWS free trial is available from https://aws.amazon.com/free/ and lasts for 12 months. From memory I think the Azure free trial lasted only one month. To start you...