Amazon EC2 running Windows Server is a secure and dependable environment in which to deploy Microsoft Exchange Server quickly and cost-effectively. Many resources are available to help you learn about running Microsoft Exchange Server on AWS. Customer case studies describe Exchange on AWS in action, running today. To dive into the technical details, developer resources can help guide you through reference architectures and best practices, and deployment automation with AWS CloudFormation can help shorten development cycles.
Customers successfully deploy and run every version of Exchange currently available, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016. AWS provides options for using Microsoft software licenses on the AWS cloud. Learn more to decide which is best for you.
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Choice Logistics provides time-critical delivery services to businesses and an available and efficient messaging environment is vital. Working with Smartronix, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Choice Logistics transitioned its Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Server 2010 on the AWS cloud. "By using AWS, we can resize mailbox servers based on demand for compute or storage, and change compute characteristics in a matter of minutes," says Tom Bentzen, Director of Information Systems at Choice.
These written guides cover specific versions of Microsoft Exchange Server used in a reference architecture to help you build your own solution. Any edition of Exchange that is compatible with one of the many versions of Windows Server that we offer can run successfully on AWS.
This reference deployment guide includes architectural considerations and configuration steps for deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 in a highly available architecture on the AWS Cloud, following AWS best practices. You can deploy the automated solution, provided by AWS CloudFormation templates, or customize the templates to meet your own requirements. This solution is available as a Quick Start, which allows you to launch the template directly from the browser.
Written with Microsoft Exchange Server IT infrastructure administrators and deployment engineers in mind, this guide discusses how to use familiar tools to plan and deploy a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 based messaging service in the AWS Cloud. It also provides a small deployment scenario to help you launch a fully configured site-resilient Exchange Server in AWS.