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Introduction The best sample applications are simple to understand, but have enough complexity to demonstrate real-world usage. Our new open-source .NET sample application, Bob’s Used Books, provides the .NET community with a simple but real-world .NET application that leverages multiple AWS frameworks and services. Bob’s Used Books is a simple eCommerce application that sells fictional […]

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that lets you pass events between AWS services, your applications, and third party services, helping you to build event-driven applications. It implements the publisher/subscriber (pub/sub) pattern, where publishers emit events, and subscribers receive them. As of this writing, over 150 AWS services generate EventBridge events. For example, you […]

Introduction When we launched AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET, the goal was to give customers an easy-to-use tool to extract microservices from their monolithic applications. To achieve this goal, we have created multiple ways for you to locate candidate code for microservices to extract. In this post, we are going to talk about the latest […]

AWS has supported .NET workloads since 2008. Over the years, .NET has changed from a less flexible, Windows-only framework to a modular, cross-platform runtime. Today, you can run legacy .NET Framework applications on Windows, as well as modern .NET applications on Linux, all fully supported on AWS. Although legacy .NET Framework applications will run on […]

This is Part 2 in a series on creating an Amazon Alexa Skill with AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. Please look at Part 1: Creating Data for the Skill to see the prerequisites on setting up the data source for our skill. In this part, the Alexa Skill we will build will return information about […]

This blog series will walk you through the process of creating an Amazon Alexa skill that queries data from an Amazon DynamoDB table. Part 1 focuses on creating the data source that the skill will query and part 2 focuses on creating the AWS Lambda function to query the data and creating the skill. In […]

At AWS re:Invent 2022 we launched Amazon CodeCatalyst, the new DevOps service for software development teams. CodeCatalyst is currently in public preview and available to developers. CodeCatalyst provides one place where you and your team can plan, work, collaborate on code, build, test and deploy applications. You can use CodeCatalyst to build your entire continuous […]

Welcome to the .NET on AWS blog! At AWS we enjoy creating content for our developer audience located across the world which consists of millions of .NET developers. To respond to your needs the .NET Developer Advocacy team publishes a steady stream of content with .NET as its main focus. A developer advocate is a […]

This post explains 3 important areas to set up in order to begin your journey with .NET development on AWS. First, create an AWS account and configure a developer user with an appropriate level of access. Second, install and configure command line tools. Lastly, download and configure the toolkit for your IDE. Many of the […]