Tag: Amazon EC2

Introduction We will explore key considerations that frequently arise during the Microsoft Windows Server migration process and offer practical insights and solutions to complete a successful transition. Migrating Windows Server to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) requires careful planning and decision-making to align with business and technical requirements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides the […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the general availability of AWS provided Subscriber Access Licenses (SAL) for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS). In this blog post we are going to show you how AWS License Manager is used to provide subscription licenses for Microsoft RDS running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). What is Microsoft […]

In this blog post, we will explore how to set up continuous database replication from Azure SQL to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server using SQL Data Sync for Azure (SQL Data Sync). Customers often replicate data across cloud platforms for various reasons, such as implementing a multicloud strategy, addressing performance challenges, […]

Have you been tasked with tracking the licenses for all Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances created from a custom Amazon Machine Images (AMI) such as Microsoft Windows Server or SQL Server in your organization? If you need to track and enforcing license usage per account from a centralized location, then this solution is […]

The Microsoft on AWS Cost Optimization (MACO) recommendation guide is a collection of cost optimization strategies designed to help you optimize both new and existing Microsoft workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It offers foundational training, cost optimization techniques, and reference architectures to build and automate cost-effective, high-performing workloads that meet business objectives. The MACO […]

Introduction In this blog post, I am going to show you how easy it is to deploy a secure infrastructure to manage your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances for Microsoft Windows Server through the automation provided by AWS Launch Wizard. AWS Launch Wizard offers a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying AWS […]

In this blog post, I will show you how to use the myApplications dashboard in the AWS Management Console. Using a sample .NET application, I will demonstrate how you can manage costs, monitor, and optimize your Microsoft workloads with this new dashboard. Introduction Assume you are a web application owner and it’s your team’s responsibility […]

In this blog post, we will show how to reduce the administrative burden of enabling Amazon CloudWatch memory metric monitoring on Windows Server EC2 instances using AWS Systems Manager automation. Once enabled, we will show how memory monitoring benefits downstream services like AWS Compute Optimizer to provide accurate cost savings recommendations. Monitoring is an important […]

Disclaimer: The use of Microsoft software is subject to Microsoft’s terms. When using Microsoft Software as a customer of AWS, you are fully responsible for complying with Microsoft licensing terms. This information is only provided as a guide for your convenience, and you should not rely on its descriptions nor consider it any form of […]

In this blog post, we explore how the Microsoft SQL Server backup metadata, known as backup headers, can be leveraged when migrating from on premises to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This technique is particularly useful when access to source database information is non-existent or only backup files are available with no access to […]