# Chef-provisioning machine resource

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-provisioning-machine-resource/6254>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [January 8, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-provisioning-machine-resource/6254 "2015-01-08T16:10:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_Pimentel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@Mark\_Pimentel](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Mark_Pimentel)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-provisioning-machine-resource/6254/1 "2015-01-08T16:10:38Z")

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Does the machine resource support ec2 windows instances? If so, how is  
that differentiated in the resource’s attributes vs the linux instance?

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Thanks,

Mark