Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Category: Windows on AWS

Batch processing for Microsoft Windows Server workloads on AWS

Computing at-scale solutions is required in many industries and domains. Cloud computing provides elastic on-demand access to large amounts of computing resources and enables economically efficient and technically flexible solutions naturally suited for computing at scale. Batch processing is a requirement for many scale-out computing solutions. Customers use batch processing as a non-interactive way of […]

How to create an Amazon EC2 AMI usage and billing information report

Have you been tasked with identifying which Amazon Machine Images (AMI) are in use in your organization and how they are being billed? Have you researched several solutions but find that you can’t get the exact data you need or that you don’t have access to the payer-level billing data? Then this solution is for […]

Using Amazon CodeCatalyst blueprints to build and deploy .NET serverless applications

In part 2 of this blog post series, we show how to set up a project in Amazon CodeCatalyst and collaborate on the coding, building, testing, and deployment of .NET serverless applications in your AWS environments. Consider reviewing the first post, which introduced CodeCatalyst. It explains the compute fleet options that are available for your […]

Using Amazon CodeCatalyst blueprints to build and deploy .NET web applications to AWS

In this blog post, the first in a series of posts about using .NET with Amazon CodeCatalyst, we will guide you through building and deploying a .NET 6.0 ASP.NET Core web API to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using the ASP.NET Core web API project blueprint included with CodeCatalyst and the AWS .NET deployment […]

Infcurion Reduces Infrastructure Costs by Nearly 30% by Migrating to AWS Fargate and Amazon RDS for SQL Server

This blog post was originally published on the AWS Japan website. It has been translated for our English readers. Written by  Sadanobu Fujikawa Translated to English by Beatriz Maeireizo, Makoto Watanabe, Jun Ueda and Craig Bossie  Infcurion is developing an embedded FinTech business that incorporates financial functions into various services, mainly through their platform services, “Wallet Station” […]

Redington Gulf: Scaling Microsoft on AWS assessments with distribution

“We [Redington Gulf] negotiate on behalf of the customer with vendors, such as Microsoft, to achieve cost savings. The experience we have gained over the years working with these vendors has allowed us to help customers at any stage of their cloud journey.” Redington Gulf, a value-added distributor for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the […]

Know your AWS options for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 End of Support

As Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 reach end of support (EOS) on October 10, 2023, it presents a unique opportunity for organizations to enhance Windows Server workloads in the cloud. In this blog post, we will walk through the common pathways AWS designed to help address the Windows Server end-of-support challenge by migrating, optimizing and modernizing these workloads, enabling you to take full advantage of the cloud and propel business innovations.

JetSweep: Helping customers build a business continuity strategy for Microsoft workloads with Disaster Recovery as a Service

“With the current geopolitical climate, it’s tough out there, and risks that impact continuity of operations are widespread. Ransomware, supply chain issues, cyberhacking, natural disasters, and human mistakes are just a few of the challenges organizations are facing.” This is what Brian MacDonald, a vice president at JetSweep, shared with me in a recent conversation […]

Simplify migrating your Windows Server images with AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a new workflow template that improves the experience of importing your on-premises virtual machine (VM) images using the AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator console. Previously, when importing Windows Server or Linux VM images using the VM Import/Export service, customers could only use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or […]

Top 10 recommendations to optimize your Windows Server workloads on AWS

In this blog post, we will share the top 10 recommendations to help you lower your costs and improve performance when running your Windows Server workloads on AWS. The first step you can take is select the right Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family, size, and licensing option for your workloads. Different instance […]