Author: David Pallmann

Adi Parab, Charlize Yeh, Eunah Lee, Nits Jeganathan, Ramapulla Chennuru, Saksham Bhalla, and Samiullah Mohammed contributed to this blog post. AWS Transform for .NET is an agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale. Customers have asked us for more transparency into what happens during transformation, such as the reasons for file changes and actionable error […]

AWS Transform for .NET accelerates large-scale modernization of .NET projects, including porting .NET Framework to cross-platform .NET as well as .NET upgrades. Today we are releasing a new feature that allows you to gain insights about transformation jobs using chat from the web console. This new chat capability lets you ask about repository assessments and […]

Introduction This blog series explores how to port different kinds of .NET Framework projects to cross-platform .NET with Amazon Q Developer .NET transformation, currently in public preview. Modernizing a Windows-based .NET Framework solution to run on Linux can reduce operational costs by up to 40%. Part 1 covered porting of class library projects. Here in […]

Introduction Production deployments can be complicated. You want to avoid disruption to your users and minimize downtime, but you also need to consider cost, time, risk, and how to recover from a failed deployment. You can balance the trade-offs between these considerations by choosing a deployment strategy. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a managed AWS compute […]

Introduction AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies migration to AWS. In Part 1, I covered Elastic Beanstalk’s value in migrating .NET web applications to AWS and different ways to deploy. Here in Part 2, I’ll give you a step-by-step walkthrough of deploying a .NET Framework application to Elastic Beanstalk from Visual Studio. Walkthrough: Deploy a .NET Framework […]

Introduction AWS provides a variety of compute services for hosting applications, starting with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), the foundation of AWS compute. On top of Amazon EC2 is a spectrum of managed services with different levels of abstraction, including container-based and serverless compute services. Customers moving to AWS often choose to migrate their […]

James Eastham, Norm Johanson, and Ulili Nhaga contributed to this post. Introduction .NET 8 is the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of cross-platform .NET, released in November 2023. .NET 8 includes performance improvements, container enhancements, C# language simplified syntax, Blazor support for full-stack web applications, and ASP.NET Core partial support for Native Ahead of […]

Chris Christou, Craig Bossie, and Saurabh Ajmera contributed to this post. As of April 30th 2024, Amazon CodeWhisperer is now part of Amazon Q Developer. Introduction Amazon CodeWhisperer (CodeWhisperer) is an AI-powered developer productivity tool that generates code suggestions. CodeWhisperer integration with Visual Studio is now available in preview. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio […]

AWS provides assistive tools that help architects, developers, and IT professionals modernize .NET workloads. On November 14th, Microsoft released .NET 8, the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) version of the .NET platform. .NET 8 includes extensive performance improvements, container enhancements, C# language simplified syntax, Blazor support for full-stack web applications, and ASP.NET Core support for Native […]

Amazon Web Services will host its annual AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas from November 27th-December 1st. In this post, I’ll review the .NET sessions at re:Invent 2023 and opportunities to network. AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. The in-person event features keynote announcements, training and […]