Category: Compute

Introduction In the ever developing landscape of modern software development, observability has emerged as a crucial aspect of building and maintaining robust applications. OpenTelemetry, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, provides a vendor-neutral set of APIs, libraries, and tools for generating and managing telemetry data, including metrics, logs, and traces. One of the powerful […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deploying, managing, and scaling .NET web applications on Amazon Web Services incredibly easy. This powerful service is available to anyone developing or hosting .NET apps on IIS. In this post, I’ll walk through setting up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline for an ASP.NET Core application, using Azure DevOps, Amazon Simple […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deploying, managing, and scaling .NET web applications on Amazon Web Services easy. This powerful service is available to anyone developing or hosting .NET apps on IIS. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to set up a continuous deployment pipeline to Elastic Beanstalk directly from GitHub using GitHub Actions. With just a […]

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 gRPC is a high-performance, cross-platform Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that allows for efficient communication between microservices. It was developed by Google and is now open-source. gRPC efficiently connects services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. For more information on gRPC, read the gRPC […]

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 […]

Introduction Pioneering computer scientist Alan Kay said in 1982, “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” At AWS, we’ve designed quite a bit of our own hardware, and have increasingly moved to use our own custom-designed silicon, including the AWS Graviton, AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium processors. The newest Graviton […]

When building serverless .NET applications in AWS, the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) provides a shorthand syntax to model resources such as AWS Lambda functions, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and event source mappings. AWS SAM helps you to build, test, and deploy your cloud-based .NET applications quickly in the cloud. This blog […]