.NET on AWS Blog

The New AWS Transform .NET Developer Experience 

At re:Invent 2025, AWS Transform unveiled an enhanced .NET developer experience in Visual Studio that is customizable, transparent, iterative, and collaborative. Our customers have asked for more insight into transformation activity and the ability to steer transformations. Developers can now benefit from editable transformation plans, estimated transformation time, real-time progress updates, next steps recommendations, and […]

Modernize WPF Desktop applications to ASP.NET Core MVC with Amazon Q Developer

Introduction A medical imaging customer recently approached our team with a need to modernize their legacy Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Framework desktop applications into ASP.NET Core MVC Web applications. They wanted to use an agentic approach to speed up their modernization to achieve the up to 4x speed that other customers have realized with Amazon […]

Securing .NET Microservices with Entra ID on AWS

Introduction In modern distributed systems, microservices need to communicate securely with each other while maintaining strict security boundaries. Implementing secure app-to-app communication at scale requires a standardized approach for both authentication and authorization. OAuth 2.0 provides this standardization, letting services verify each other’s identity and control access to protected resources. Consider a typical e-commerce scenario […]

Building a .NET Log Analysis System using Amazon Bedrock

Introduction Log analysis helps you maintain reliable applications by identifying issues, troubleshooting problems, and gaining operational insights. Traditional log analysis struggles with unstructured data and requires hours of manual work to extract meaningful patterns. Generative AI transforms this process by automatically identifying anomalies, understanding context, and surfacing specific recommendations without complex configuration. In this post, […]

Modernize Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI with AWS Transform

AWS Transform is an agentic service that accelerates modernization, including .NET applications. With it, you can transform legacy .NET applications to modern cross-platform .NET. AWS Transform can port your Xamarin.Forms mobile applications to .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI). In this post, I’ll show you how to transform your Xamarin.Forms projects to modern .NET MAUI. Why […]

Modernize ASP.NET Web Forms UI to Blazor with AWS Transform

AWS Transform is an agentic service that accelerates modernization, including .NET applications. With it, you can transform .NET Framework Windows applications to cross-platform .NET and reduce operating costs up to 40% by running on Linux. For ASP.NET web applications, AWS Transform can port the UI layer to ASP.NET Core. In this post, I’ll explain how […]

Modernize ASP.NET MVC Razor UI with AWS Transform

AWS Transform is an agentic service that accelerates modernization, including .NET applications. With it, you can transform .NET Framework Windows applications to cross-platform .NET and reduce operating costs up to 40% by running on Linux. For ASP.NET web applications, AWS Transform can port the UI layer to ASP.NET Core. In this post, I’ll explain how […]

Implementing Scalable DynamoDB Counter Operations in .NET Applications

Introduction Web applications use counter operations to deliver interactive user experiences. Whether tracking social media engagement metrics or managing e-commerce inventory levels, these operations must be both reliable and scalable. This post walks you through two architectural patterns that deliver predictable performance. To illustrate these patterns, let us consider a social media application post-liking feature. […]

VTEX accelerates application scale-up by 88% with Amazon EKS

Alberto Frocht and João Borges contributed to this article. Introduction VTEX, a global e-commerce company serving over 3,400 customers across 38 countries, has undergone a transformative journey since its inception in 2000. Evolving from a B2B textile software to a cloud-native, microservices-based e-commerce platform, VTEX has prioritized efficiency, resilience, and innovation. As part of the […]

Optimizing AWS development costs for .NET applications with LocalStack

Development and testing of AWS integrated applications incur AWS costs and need reliable internet connectivity. LocalStack helps reduce AWS costs by running emulated AWS services locally, while also eliminating connectivity issues. In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to reduce AWS costs for a sample .NET application in Development and Test cycles by setting […]