.NET on AWS Blog

Introduction This post walks you through the process of adding telemetry to your .NET applications running on Kubernetes using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) to gain observability into your applications, which allows you to find and fix operational issues quickly. ADOT uses OpenTelemetry, an open-source, vendor-neutral observability framework that standardizes how you instrument applications to […]

If you have multiple .NET Framework solutions to modernize, you may be wondering how to do that efficiently – especially if you have dozens, hundreds, or thousands of repositories. You can accelerate .NET code modernization with AWS Transform, converting old Windows .NET Framework applications to modern .NET on Linux. In a prior post, I covered […]

Bio-Rad Laboratories, a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostics, faced the challenge of modernizing their customer-facing applications built on unsupported .NET frameworks. Traditional approach to modernization of their legacy .NET and Classic ASP applications would have delayed making their applications secure, scalable and maintainable by more than a year. Legacy application modernization […]

Multi-tenant SaaS providers often need to control which application version each tenant runs, a practice called per-tenant version pinning, so they can roll out new releases incrementally and move tenants between versions without downtime and manual changes. A common approach is to configure the Application Load Balancer with hostname-based routing rules, but this doesn’t scale. […]

Enterprises who need to migrate business-critical Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services to ASP.NET Core Web API sometimes struggle with the scope of the change. These services still run on .NET Framework, the pool of engineers fluent in service contracts keep shrinking, and modern .NET does not support WCF. The community CoreWCF project (a .NET Foundation […]

You can accelerate .NET application modernization with AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization—but there may be some follow on work. End-to-end modernization often involves post-transformation tasks to finalize your application for production readiness. By finalize, I mean validating, debugging, and completing your modernized application so that it is ready for use. In this post, I’ll […]

Introduction Serverless has become the default for event-driven .NET workloads, and many teams that started on Azure Functions are now consolidating onto AWS to unify their compute, data, and AI in single cloud. If you run C#/.NET serverless functions on Azure and want to move to AWS Lambda, this playbook gives you an end-to-end, repeatable […]

Introduction Modernizing SQL Server databases to Aurora PostgreSQL often stalls before it starts. Infrastructure setup, network configurations, credential sharing, and security reviews create weeks of friction before teams can even assess what the migration involves. With Offline Source in AWS Transform full-stack Windows modernization, you can skip those barriers and begin modernizing your Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora […]

Satyajit Gokhale, Aiswaryaa Venugopalan, Ruchi Agarwal, Nits Jeganathan, Khurram Khawaja, Vijay Mandadi, and Luke Huan contributed to this article. Within the .NET application modernization service of AWS Transform, enterprise customers are also provided an option to migrate the database layer of the application from Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Compatible Edition. Modernizing to […]

Many enterprises still maintain legacy Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) applications built on .NET Framework. While these applications continue to serve business needs, organizations face growing challenges: a shrinking VB.NET developer talent pool, limited modern tooling support, and a difficult path to cross-platform .NET modernization. Migrating from VB.NET to C# addresses these challenges by opening access […]