Microsoft Workloads on AWS

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 […]

In today’s fast-paced cloud transformation landscape, organizations face the critical challenge of modernizing their legacy Microsoft .NET applications efficiently while minimizing risk and maximizing return on investment. Many customers are turning to containerization, often starting with Linux containers to modernize applications built on .NET Core or other cross-platform frameworks. However, legacy .NET Framework applications often […]

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 […]

In this blog post, we will introduce the AWS Well-Architected Microsoft Workloads Lens, a comprehensive framework designed to help you build and operate Microsoft-based systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with confidence. Organizations continue to run Microsoft workloads on AWS to leverage the scalability, reliability, and innovation of the cloud while maintaining their investments in […]

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 […]

As enterprises of all sizes accelerate their cloud transformation journeys, running Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS) has emerged as a strategic choice for mission-critical database workloads, with AWS emerging as a lead cloud provider for SQL Server users. Whether deploying SQL Server on Amazon EC2 instances for maximum control and customization, or […]

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 […]

In this blog post, we will guide you through the process on performing a snapshot backup using native T-SQL based backup abilities and snapshot technology of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN). This method provide near-instant, consistent backups with negligible I/O, storage and compute capacity impact unlike traditional Microsoft SQL Server backups. Introduction Microsoft SQL […]

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 […]