.NET on AWS Blog

Introduction Amazon Bedrock is a fully-managed serverless service which provides high-performing Foundation Models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, and Stability AI. Amazon Bedrock offers developers the flexibility to select the most suitable Generative AI model based on their specific requirements. You can build generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deploying, managing, and scaling .NET web applications on Amazon Web Services easy. This powerful service is available to anyone developing or hosting .NET apps on IIS. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to set up a continuous deployment pipeline to Elastic Beanstalk directly from GitHub using GitHub Actions. With just a […]

Recent developments in generative Artificial Intelligence (generative AI) have made it easier and affordable to create applications and experiences that improve the way we live and work. Generative AI is helping businesses improve customer experiences through assistants and conversational analytics and boost employee productivity through automated generation of content, reports, and code. In this blog […]

This post was co-authored by Alok Bhatnagar, Technical Account Manager, AWS, and Tomáš Herceg, founder of DotVVM, an open-source framework that simplifies creating line-of-business web applications for .NET developers.  Since the genesis of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET Web Forms has been a popular choice for building websites. Even to this day, there are thousands of […]

Introduction Production deployments can be complicated. You want to avoid disruption to your users and minimize downtime, but you also need to consider cost, time, risk, and how to recover from a failed deployment. You can balance the trade-offs between these considerations by choosing a deployment strategy. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a managed AWS compute […]

Introduction gRPC is a high-performance, cross-platform Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that allows for efficient communication between microservices. It was developed by Google and is now open-source. gRPC efficiently connects services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. For more information on gRPC, read the gRPC […]

Introduction Disaster Recovery (DR) is an essential aspect of cloud computing. A solid DR strategy is required to ensure business continuity and less downtime in the event of unexpected disruptions. AWS, with its global infrastructure, provides the flexibility and scalability needed for effective DR. Multi-AZ (Availability Zone) deployments provide DR capability at the AZ level. […]

APIs are the building blocks of modern software, and protecting them is more crucial than ever. As your application gets more complex and interconnected, ensuring that only authorized users can access specific resources becomes important. Amazon Cognito is an identity platform for web and mobile applications. It’s a user directory, an authentication server, and an […]

Introduction Enterprises are looking to modernize their legacy .NET applications to take full advantage of the cloud. However, modernization is a complex process, typically involving refactoring a monolithic architecture, finding cross-platform replacements for Windows-specific dependencies, and updating application configurations to run in a container or serverless environment. The complexities of large enterprise-grade legacy applications make […]

Introduction AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies migration to AWS. In Part 1, I covered Elastic Beanstalk’s value in migrating .NET web applications to AWS and different ways to deploy. Here in Part 2, I’ll give you a step-by-step walkthrough of deploying a .NET Framework application to Elastic Beanstalk from Visual Studio. Walkthrough: Deploy a .NET Framework […]