Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Introduction In this blog post, we show how to review and customize the transformation plan in AWS Transform before you convert Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (Aurora PostgreSQL). A database migration rarely stalls on the objects that convert cleanly. It stalls on the decisions. You decide whether MONEY carries four decimal places […]

Introduction Keeping Microsoft Windows Server current is an ongoing challenge, and two end-of-support (EOS) milestones make it especially pressing. Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 reached end of support on October 10, 2023, and Windows Server 2016 extended support ends on January 12, 2027. After these dates, Microsoft no longer provides security updates or patches, […]

It’s a common challenge for customers: years of dynamic institutional knowledge – company policies, organization structures, employee handbooks – sit buried across thousands of documents, and employees waste hours hunting for answers that already exist. In this blog post, we share how Amazon Quick (Quick) turns SharePoint Online content into a secure, conversational RAG knowledge […]

In this blog, we will first review AWS License Manager’s latest feature release for multiple Active Directory registration support when using Microsoft Office on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and then compare it to other Active Directory architectures to see which deployment option is right for you. Microsoft Office is available for Amazon EC2 […]

AWS re:Invent 2026 brings a strong lineup of sessions for customers running Microsoft workloads on AWS. This year’s content centers on agentic AI for .NET and SQL Server modernization with AWS Transform and Kiro, moving off Windows and SQL Server licensing costs, VMware exit strategies, and operating Microsoft workloads resiliently once they are in the […]

In this blog post, we show you how to add intelligence to your existing Microsoft infrastructure investments with Kiro CLI. The result is an AI-powered toolset to improve your Windows infrastructure’s health and security posture. Introduction Managing, monitoring, and governing a Windows-based environment is tedious and error-prone. At the same time, you have likely invested […]

Introduction In this blog post, we show you how to eliminate Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as a single point of failure in your hybrid architecture using AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, specifically AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Hybrid Edition). Many organizations running hybrid workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) have a hard dependency on […]

In this post, we describe how Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Kloia, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, compressed a three-to-six months discovery and assessment cycle into four weeks for a UK-regulated financial institution, delivering a board-ready modernization blueprint on AWS. The engagement scope was discovery and AI-driven analysis using Claude Code via Amazon Bedrock […]

Introduction A common approach to implementing SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster (FCI) on Amazon EC2 is using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN). The general approach for migrating an FSxN file systems from first to second generation is using NetApp SnapMirror. That approach works well for NAS workloads (NFS/SMB file shares) where you can […]

Introduction If you host multiple ASP.NET web applications on a single AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Elastic Beanstalk) Windows Server environment, you face a common operational challenge: every deployment restarts Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), which takes down all sites on the instance, even the ones that did not change. For multi-tenant workloads where each IIS site […]