Microsoft Workloads on AWS
Category: .NET
Using AWS Services for distributed caching in ASP.NET Core Web Applications
Software development engineers invest thought and effort into optimizing the performance of the applications they build, often using strategies such as caching frequently used data, moving code closer to the users, optimizing code, optimizing data access and disk I/O, and response compression. In this blog post, we explore one such optimization – caching in ASP.NET […]
Monitor applications and AWS infrastructure using Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights helps you monitor your applications and AWS infrastructure running those applications by providing easy monitoring setup and a holistic view into the health of your applications. You begin with CloudWatch Application Insights discovering the applications in your AWS Resource Groups or account. Then, it will identify and set up metrics, logs, […]
Setting up monitors for .NET Application and SQL Server using Application Insights
Many Windows-based applications are .NET applications. They use SQL Server in the backend to retrieve and persist data. Often in the journey to the cloud, a rehost decision is made for such a solution using a simple lift-and-shift approach. When such applications are hosted on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Windows platform, native […]
Modernizing ASP.NET Web Forms applications to Blazor using Porting Assistant for .NET
ASP.NET Web Forms has been a part of the .NET Framework since its initial release in 2002 and continues to power many web applications today. Customers want to modernize these applications to ASP.NET Core to realize cost savings, enhance performance, and increased agility. However, the .NET team confirmed that Web Forms will not be ported to ASP.NET Core. This means […]
How Tyler Technologies improved access to justice during the COVID-19 pandemic using .NET on AWS
By Zovin Khanmohammed – Software Architect at Tyler Technologies Arun Krishnaswamy – Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS (Tyler Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TYL) is the largest provider of software to the United States public sector. The end-to-end solutions that Tyler provides empower the public sector to create smarter, safer, and stronger communities.) This blog post […]
Announcing AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET
These days customers are increasingly looking to modernize internally developed applications. These applications could be internet facing products, which were developed as monolithic applications, or applications designed to help with internal processes. Customers seeking to modernize applications have a variety of goals that include making their applications more stable, and moving to newer technologies such […]
How AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET helps Kloia accelerate the modernization journey of their customers
By Prasad Rao – Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Ekin Barut – Software Consultant at Kloia Legacy monolithic .NET Framework applications are common in many organizations. Splitting a monolith application into smaller fine-grained microservices is an important part of the modernization journey for these organizations. Modernizing monolith application by converting to microservices […]
Build Your Windows and .NET on AWS Skills at re:Invent 2021
This post is written by Tom McCafferty, Principal Product Marketing. Join us at AWS re:Invent 2021 – Nov 29th – Dec 3rd – to accelerate migration and modernization of your Microsoft workloads. This year the Windows Track will focus on how to maximize the performance of on-premises workloads on AWS, improve security and identity capabilities […]
Reducing the operational cost of containerized Windows applications with AWS App2Container support for Windows on AWS Fargate
In July of 2020, AWS announced support for automating the conversion and deployment of IIS-based Windows applications to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), or AWS App Runner using the AWS App2Container tool. In the time since that initial announcement, App2Container has been enhanced to support more complex architectures […]
Modernizing legacy WCF applications to CoreWCF using Porting Assistant for .NET
Many organizations have legacy Windows Communication Framework (WCF) based applications that they have been running for several years on Windows platform. These customers want to modernize to .NET Core to take advantage of the performance, cost savings, and robust ecosystem of Linux. Today, we announced support of porting WCF application to CoreWCF in Porting Assistant for […]