Microsoft Workloads on AWS
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Migrating SQL Server FCI Storage from Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Gen 1 to Gen 2
Introduction A common approach to implementing SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster (FCI) on Amazon EC2 is using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN). The general approach for migrating an FSxN file systems from first to second generation is using NetApp SnapMirror. That approach works well for NAS workloads (NFS/SMB file shares) where you can […]
Migrate Azure SQL Managed Instance to Amazon RDS for SQL Server with BYOM
Introduction Migrating SQL Server off Azure SQL Managed Instance usually means paying for licenses you already own. With Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, you can move those databases to a fully managed AWS service and reuse your existing SQL Server licenses instead of paying twice. In this post, you […]
Add Microsoft Office to an existing image using EC2 Image Builder
If you want to use software available from the AWS Marketplace, it can be challenging to use multiple software offerings on a single server because each offering is specific to a different Amazon Machine Image (AMI). For example, if your users needed Microsoft Office and Visual Studio, it would require two different Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud […]
Gain organization-wide visibility into software licensing with AWS License Manager license asset groups
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 […]
Reduce Microsoft SQL Server High Availability costs running on Amazon EC2
AWS has helped hundreds of thousands of customers transition their SQL Server workloads to the cloud since 2008, longer than any other cloud provider. Running business-critical applications often requires Microsoft SQL Server databases to be highly available. Customers choosing to use SQL Server for their mission-critical workloads can achieve high availability by deploying SQL Server […]
Extend your Active Directory domain to AWS with AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Hybrid Edition)
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 […]
How TEKsystems Modernized a University’s Microsoft Workloads on AWS
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 […]
Operating BYOL Windows Server Workloads Effectively on AWS
One way that customers running Microsoft Workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) may reduce costs is taking advantage of Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for eligible licenses they own. In this blog post, we are going to share a few practices to help you optimize your operation of BYOL Windows Server workloads on AWS. Introduction […]
Modernize .NET applications at scale with AWS Transform for .NET
Introduction This blog post will walk you through a sample transformation using the new AWS Transform for .NET web experience. You’ll learn how to set up your environment, configure connections, execute the transformation process, and analyze results. Organizations running .NET Framework applications face growing challenges with licensing costs, scalability, and security while continuing to rely […]
Port your .NET Framework applications to Linux with AWS Transform for .NET
Recently, we announced the general availability of AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale. With AWS Transform for .NET, you can accelerate modernization of .NET Framework applications to cross-platform .NET by up to 4x. Since .NET 8 and later are cross-platform, you can run your .NET 8 […]








