{"id":3943,"date":"2011-12-16T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dataplatforminsider\/2011\/12\/16\/cloud-service-providers-are-going-live-with-sql-server-2012-rc0\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:49:52","slug":"cloud-service-providers-are-going-live-with-sql-server-2012-rc0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/cloud-service-providers-are-going-live-with-sql-server-2012-rc0\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Service Providers are Going \u201cLive\u201d with SQL Server 2012 RC0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:small;\">A few months back we announced <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/solutions\/global-solution-providers\/microsoft\/denali\/\"><span style=\"font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:small;\">SQL Server 2012 availability on Amazon\u2019s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:small;\"> Since that time we are seeing more momentum worldwide as other service provider partners are going live with SQL Server 2012 for their customers in their cloud leveraging the latest SQL Server 2012 RC0 release. A few examples we are seeing from have recently launched, in talking to these partners SQL Server 2012 is generating a lot of excitement with their customers. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<span style=\"font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.discountasp.net\/free-sql-server-2012-beta-hosting-available-for-customers\/\">Discount ASP.NET<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:small;\"> a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the US has announced the opportunity to try SQL Server 2012 RC0 for free, &#8220;We are proud to be one of the first hosts to offer our web hosting customers with an opportunity to get a jumpstart in testing next generation SQL Server technology,\u201d said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. <\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peer1.com\/managed\/mssql2012.php\"><span style=\"font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:small;\">Peer 1 Hosting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:small;\"> a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the US, Canada, UK and Europe and Latin America recently launched SQL 2012 RC0 for their managed hosting customers. <\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcentral.com.au\/sql-server-2012\/\"><span style=\"font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:small;\">WebCentral<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:small;\"> a part of Melbourne IT and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Australia is also providing its customers with access to SQL Server 2012 RC0 for a small monthly fee. <\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:small;\">We are hearing from other service provider partners around the world that are coming on line in the coming weeks. 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