Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Andy Hopper

Author: Andy Hopper

Andy Hopper is a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS specializing in how to migrate and modernize Microsoft workloads using .NET and Windows technologies.

Reducing the operational cost of containerized Windows applications with AWS App2Container support for Windows on AWS Fargate

In July of 2020, AWS announced support for automating the conversion and deployment of IIS-based Windows applications to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), or AWS App Runner using the AWS App2Container tool. In the time since that initial announcement, App2Container has been enhanced to support more complex architectures […]

Accelerate .NET application modernization with Porting Assistant for .NET Visual Studio IDE extension

Many organizations have .NET Framework legacy applications they want to modernize to .NET Core or .NET 5 to take advantage of the performance, cost savings, and robust ecosystem of Linux. It’s why AWS launched Porting Assistant for .NET in July 2020. Porting Assistant helps developers accelerate the conversion of their code from the Windows-only .NET […]