Microsoft Workloads on AWS
Category: Announcements
.NET observability with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals
This blog post provides a detailed walkthrough on integrating Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals with .NET applications deployed on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster. The solution uses CloudWatch Observability Add-On for EKS to enable the .NET applications to emit telemetry signals using OpenTelemetry automatically. Introduction Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals during […]
MultiCloud cost visibility with Amazon QuickSight and FOCUS
Customers with multi-cloud environments struggle to effectively track and manage their usage and costs. They access the individual billing portals of each cloud provider to gather cost information. Without a consolidated view on cloud expenditure, making data-driven decisions to optimize costs becomes difficult. In September 2023 we introduced the Cloud Intelligence Dashboard for Azure. This […]
Reserve your seat: Microsoft workloads on AWS sessions at re:Invent 2024
AWS re:Invent 2024 is less than 4 weeks away! Did you know that this is Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) 13th annual re:Invent? With over 2,400 sessions across six venues this year, it is an opportune time to expand your skill set and your network of AWS enthusiasts and builders. Reserved seating is open and available […]
Join AWS at PASS Data Community Summit 2024
AWS is excited to announce our participation as a Platinum sponsor at the PASS Data Community Summit 2024, continuing our commitment to empower organizations with our data and AI services. Our mission is to help businesses migrate, optimize, and modernize Microsoft SQL Server workloads while accelerating innovation, offering unrivaled reliability, security, and cost efficiency—all within […]
Reserve your seat: Microsoft workloads on AWS sessions at re:Invent 2023
AWS re:Invent 2023 is less than six weeks away! Did you know that this is Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) 12th annual re:Invent? With over 2,200 sessions across six venues this year, it is an opportune time to expand your skill set and your network of AWS enthusiasts and builders. The good news is that the […]
Join AWS at PASS Data Community Summit 2023
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to welcome our customers and partners to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 in Seattle on November 14-17, where data professionals and experts gather to explore the latest trends, technologies, and innovations. We are delighted that AWS will continue our ongoing support of this community as a Platinum sponsor—and […]
How to view Azure costs using Amazon QuickSight
Introducing the Cloud Intelligence Dashboard for Azure. Enhance cloud cost monitoring with Amazon QuickSight by integrating Microsoft Azure usage data.
How to simplify certificate provisioning in Active Directory with AWS Private Certificate Authority
In this blog post, we will explore a new feature for AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA), Connector for Active Directory, that can help you more easily provision certificates for users and machines within your Microsoft Active Directory (AD) environment with just a few clicks. AWS Private CA can accelerate your provisioning and reduce […]
How to calculate a Dedicated Hosts cost estimate for Windows Server and SQL Server
In this blog post, I will show you how to use the new Dedicated Host packing and pricing capability for Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server in the AWS Pricing Calculator. This used to be a manual process, but our customers wanted us to automate it—so here we are. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon […]
How to use the new AWS Modernization Calculator for Microsoft Workloads to estimate modernized architectures
On November 18, 2022, we announced the general availability of the AWS Modernization Calculator for Microsoft Workloads. Using this tool, you can estimate the cost of modernizing your Microsoft workloads to a new architecture that uses open-source software and cloud-based services in the AWS cloud. It enables you to assess the benefits of using technologies […]