Microsoft Workloads on AWS
Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service
Automate Microsoft web application deployments with GitHub Actions and Terraform
Managing infrastructure deployments and application code releases can be challenging. Manual processes often lead to delays, errors, and inconsistency across different environments. This inconsistency, known as environment drift, makes it difficult to ensure reliable deployments. As a result, teams struggle to maintain a high release velocity. In this blog post, we will show how GitHub […]
Using Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate to automate Azure DevOps Hosted Agents
In this blog post, we will show you how to use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate as hosted agents to deploy applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Microsoft Azure Pipelines. This is a continuation of a previous post about using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling with your […]
Containerize your legacy ASP.NET application in a few clicks using AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator
In this blog post, we will cover how to containerize and deploy an ASP.NET application running on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for Microsoft Windows Server instance to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate using AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator.
Know your AWS options for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 End of Support
As Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 reach end of support (EOS) on October 10, 2023, it presents a unique opportunity for organizations to enhance Windows Server workloads in the cloud. In this blog post, we will walk through the common pathways AWS designed to help address the Windows Server end-of-support challenge by migrating, optimizing and modernizing these workloads, enabling you to take full advantage of the cloud and propel business innovations.
How Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts saved 40% with .NET modernization
The Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts (AR-AOC) is an agency within the judicial branch of the Arkansas state government. AR-AOC provides a wide range of administrative, legal, financial, management, program, and information technology services to the state courts on behalf of the Arkansas Supreme Court. In this blog post, we share the story of […]
Port legacy VB.NET applications to .NET 6.0 with Porting Assistant for .NET
Since its release in 2002, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) has been a popular choice for software developers creating Windows-based applications. With the release of .NET 6.0, some exciting changes are available for developers. This version of .NET boasts some amazing features that are sure to make your applications faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain. […]
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere support on Windows
In AWS, customers are running their most mission-critical workloads on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with Windows as their compute layer. Some applications have requirements for low latency access to on-premises systems or data processing locally due to data residency requirements or local system dependencies. These requirements might be a roadblock for the ongoing […]
Generating CI/CD Pipelines for Containerized ASP.NET Applications using AWS App2Container
Every day, companies are running legacy applications on top of highly scalable container architectures such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS). These legacy applications, many of them Windows-based, can be difficult for companies to manage and often need a heavy infrastructure lift to maintain. Because many legacy […]
Containerizing Complex Multi-tier Windows Applications using AWS App2Container
Many enterprises want to rapidly containerize and migrate their existing legacy applications to the cloud. That’s why AWS launched AWS App2Container in June 2020, a service that helps customers containerize ASP.NET and Java applications without making any code changes. App2Container allows customers to easily containerize and deploy an existing application to Amazon Elastic Container Service […]
Containerizing legacy ASP.NET applications using AWS App2Container (A2C)
Every day, companies are running legacy applications on top of highly scalable container architectures such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS). This is because legacy applications, many of them Windows-based, can be difficult for companies to manage and often need a heavy infrastructure lift to maintain. Because many […]