"Switching from a Magnetic volume to a General Purpose (SSD) volume of the same size reduces the typical boot time for Windows 2008 R2 by approximately 50%."

There is a C/C++ SDK available.

Is the SDK publicly available right now?

Does anyone have experience with http://www.cloudsigma.com/? They seem like a nice alternative for european companies. It would be interesting to see a comparison with Amazon and Rackspace.

Please have a look at:

http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/our-cloud/how-we-compare (feature comparison)

https://cloudsleuth.net/web/guest/global-provider-view (select Europe for a comparison of our cloud performance against other providers)