Brian Harry announced it today on his blog. I’ve tried it out and it’s awesome! They’ve got much of what you would find on a local tfs install, but of course it’s using the new tfs 2012 stuff and the web access is much better. They’ve got the Scrum 2.0, CMMI 6.0, and Agile 6.0 templates to choose from, but they all have a “Scrum-ish” feeling to them. For instance the CMMI one has a backlog! Interesting development….
Go check it out today and use it while it’s still free!
As a TFS consultant, I need to know everything there is to know about the product. I really didn’t want to spend $1,000+ on hardware to have it running all the time, so I looked into using Amazon Web Services. I had a little trepidation because I really didn’t know how much money it was going to cost me, but I figured “what the heck” and gave it a try. Here are my results or more specifically my first month’s bill:
This comes out to $10.18, which really isn’t that bad. I tried the small instance first, but it didn’t have enough RAM, so I went with the more costly Large Instance. This was plenty of firepower. As I recall, it had about 6 GB of RAM and multiple cores. I put SharePoint 2010, TFS 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 on it and everything ran smoothly. I am thinking of bundling the Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) to make it easier for others to get started. Please contact me or leave a comment if you’re interested.
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