Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Category: Programing Language

Synchronize Active Directory users to AWS IAM Identity Center using SCIM and PowerShell

In this blog post, I will show you how to use PowerShell to synchronize changes to Microsoft Active Directory (AD) users and groups for federated access to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Introduction Some customers have a well-established Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) implementation and would like to leverage it for federated access to AWS via […]

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 […]

How Kloia helped Digiturk achieve 65% cost savings with .NET Modernization on AWS

In this blog post, we’ll describe how Kloia worked with Digiturk, beIN Media Group Company, a global sports and entertainment media group, to achieve 65% cost savings by partially modernizing Digiturk’s legacy .NET Framework monolithic application to .NET-based microservices architecture. Digiturk is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey and their services include both streaming and VoD (Video-on-Demand), […]

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 […]

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 […]

How to use AWS App2Container to automate the setup of Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines

Introduction In this blog post, we will walk through how to automate the creation of an Azure DevOps release pipeline that deploys containerized applications to AWS. This solution will save you time and effort if you’re using Azure DevOps for version control or CI/CD and if you’re modernizing your applications using containers. We will use […]