Category: Technical How-to

In today’s hybrid IT landscape, many organizations are strategically moving their infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) while maintaining certain on-premises services. Microsoft Exchange Server remains a critical communication platform for businesses and deploying it in AWS provides excellent opportunities to leverage cloud scalability and reliability. Whether you’re migrating an existing Exchange infrastructure or implementing […]

Enterprises worldwide rely on Microsoft Office for critical business operations. AWS makes it straightforward to deploy Microsoft Office on individual Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances using the Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021 image from AWS Marketplace, as in the blog post How to Set Up Microsoft Office on Amazon EC2. This approach works well for small-scale deployments, […]

Enterprises are under increasing pressure to optimize software licensing costs, maintain vendor compliance, and make data-driven renewal decisions while managing fragmented license data across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts and regions. Centralizing and governing this license data facilitates cost optimization, audit readiness, and strategic procurement planning. In this blog post, we’ll show you how […]

SQL Server professionals manage critical database systems that power enterprise applications, from financial platforms to ecommerce systems. Their responsibilities include optimizing query performance, managing schemas, ensuring high availability, and troubleshooting complex issues. With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), businesses are redesigning their workflows, enabling AI to independently complete tasks and achieve business goals. Customers […]

Microsoft SQL Server Developer edition offers organizations a cost-effective solution for their non-production database workloads on AWS. While many enterprises rely on this edition for development and pre-production testing environments, the traditional deployment process can be cumbersome – requiring manual steps like logging into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, downloading installation media, and […]

In this blog, we’re going to show you how AWS License Manager can leverage the directory sharing feature available from AWS Directory Services for AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) to centrally manage user subscriptions services while using multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. AWS License Manager offers you user-based subscriptions for […]

In this blog post, we will extend the analysis of the Optimize CPUs feature provided in a previous publication to other Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances suitable for deployment of Microsoft SQL Server workloads on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Amazon EC2 now allows customers to modify an instance’s CPU options to […]

This post shows how to implement a hybrid disaster recovery solution by extending your on-premises Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Group (AOAG) to SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Introduction Many Organizations need cloud-based disaster recovery solutions that maintain critical on-premises operations while minimizing costs. This post demonstrates how to extend […]

Introduction Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Hybrid Edition of AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD). This new edition lets you extend your existing self-managed Active Directory (AD) domain to AWS Managed Microsoft AD while preserving your current identity and access infrastructure. AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Hybrid […]

In this blog post, we will describe how TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) worked with a university to modernize their legacy .NET Framework 3.5 applications to .NET 8 based microservices and Microsoft SQL Server (SQL Server) to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (Aurora PostgreSQL). TGS is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) premier tier services partner leading digital transformation […]