Microsoft Workloads on AWS
Author: Marcio Morales
Marcio Morales is a Principal Specialist Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services, helping customers to migrate and modernize their infrastructure into AWS. He is the author of the book "Running Windows Containers on AWS" and a global SME for Windows containers. He helps AWS customers design, build, secure, and optimize Windows container workloads on AWS.
Containerize SQL Server workloads with Amazon EKS and DxOperator for Kubernetes
In this blog post, we will demonstrate a simple and effective way to deploy Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Group (AG) containers in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with DxOperator – SQL Server Operator for Kubernetes. Deploying database workloads in Kubernetes (K8s) is a growing trend. The Cloud Native Foundation’s 2022 Survey showed […]
Using SMB CSI Driver on Amazon EKS Windows nodes
Back in 2020, we first published a blog post on how Windows pods on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) could access Amazon FSx for Windows File Server as persistent storage. This was accomplished by using AWS Systems Manager to automate the domain join. In the background, a feature from SMB protocol called “SMB Global […]
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere support on Windows
In AWS, customers are running their most mission-critical workloads on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with Windows as their compute layer. Some applications have requirements for low latency access to on-premises systems or data processing locally due to data residency requirements or local system dependencies. These requirements might be a roadblock for the ongoing […]