Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Category: Developer Tools

Update AWS Tools for PowerShell at scale with AWS Systems Manager

In this blog post, I will show you how to update AWS Tools for PowerShell at scale within your environment by using the AWS Systems Manager Run Command. Manually updating AWS Tools for PowerShell across multiple instances can be time-consuming, inefficient, and error prone. These manual operational efforts typically result in a logistical nightmare, especially […]

Use Azure DevOps to deploy AWS Glue jobs in CI/CD pipeline

In this blog post, we will walk you through an example using AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps to deploy your AWS Glue jobs across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts to simulate development and production environments. Introduction AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data […]

Using Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate to automate Azure DevOps Hosted Agents

In this blog post, we will show you how to use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate as hosted agents to deploy applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Microsoft Azure Pipelines. This is a continuation of a previous post about using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling with your […]

Accelerate .NET and SQL development with Amazon CodeWhisperer as your AI coding companion

Introduction .NET and Structured Query Language (SQL) developers these days are expected to do more with less time, while still maintaining code quality and adhering to best practices. Amazon CodeWhisperer is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding companion that can help developers accelerate and enhance their software development with code generation, reference tracking, security scans, and […]

Using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to Manage Azure Pipelines Agent Capacity

In this blog post, we will show you how to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling with your self-hosted Amazon EC2 Azure Pipelines agents to deploy applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Azure DevOps. Introduction There are many ways that you can build and deploy your applications to AWS. You can […]

How to build an automated C# code documentation generator using AWS DevOps

In this blog post, we will show you how to create a documentation solution on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud that automatically generates and publishes a technical documentation website for a .NET project, based on source code comments, API definitions, and Markdown documents included in the project. Having a technical documentation website improves developer […]

.NET observability with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray: Part 2 — Logging

Building a well-architected .NET application goes beyond just coding and deploying. You must monitor performance, trace transactions, collect logs, gather metrics, and trigger alarms when metrics breach thresholds. To achieve this, you can design and implement telemetry to enable observability capabilities. In the first part of this blog series, I covered the implementation of metrics. […]

.NET Observability with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray: Part 3 – Distributed Trace

Building a well-architected .NET application goes beyond just coding and deploying. You must monitor performance, trace transactions, collect logs, gather metrics, and trigger alarms when metrics breach thresholds. To achieve this, you can design and implement telemetry to enable observability capabilities. In the first post of the series, I covered the implementation of metrics, and […]

.NET observability with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray: Part 1 — Metrics

Building a well-architected .NET application goes beyond just coding and deploying. You must monitor performance, trace transactions, collect logs, gather metrics, and trigger alarms when metrics breach thresholds. To achieve this, you can design and implement telemetry to enable observability capabilities. This post is the first in a series of three posts in which I […]

Embedding Amazon QuickSight analytics in .NET applications

In this blog post for .NET developers, we will discuss step-by-step instructions on how to embed Amazon QuickSight analytics in your .NET applications using QuickSight APIs and make them available for Amazon Cognito authenticated users. Amazon QuickSight Embedded analytics is a feature of QuickSight that applies data analytics to the applications used by your end users, analysts, and business leaders. QuickSight Embedded provides […]