AWS Modernization Tools now support .NET 8

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 Ahead of Time compilation (NativeAOT). The following AWS modernization tools now support .NET 8:

AWS App2Container (A2C) is a command line tool that containerizes your applications. It automatically generates a container image configured with the correct dependencies, network configurations, and deployment instructions for Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS. A2C can now detect a .NET 8 runtime version and containerize the application using the corresponding runtime base images.

AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET is an assistive tool that serves as an advisor to assess and visualize monolithic code, and recommend microservice candidates using artificial intelligence and heuristics. It also serves as a robotic builder to simplify microservices extraction. Microservice Extractor now supports analyzing .NET 8 applications for visualization, grouping, and extraction. With its integrated strangler-fig porting capability, you can also use Microservice Extractor to break down a large .NET Framework-based application with hundreds of projects and thousands of classes into manageable groups and port those directly to .NET 8.

Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations (MHSR) helps you plan migration and modernization initiatives by offering strategy recommendations for viable transformation paths for your applications. MHSR can now detect .NET 8 applications and provide recommendations for them.

AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring is a Visual Studio extension that helps you refactor legacy .NET applications to cloud-based alternatives on AWS. It provides a compatibility assessment report and helps port your code. The Toolkit for .NET Refactoring can now target .NET 8 for assessment, porting, and test deployment.

You can take full advantage of .NET 8 as you plan, migrate, and modernize .NET workloads on AWS using these assistive tools. For more information on .NET modernization use cases and tools, see Modernize .NET Workloads on AWS at the .NET on AWS developer center.