Microsoft Workloads on AWS

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Containerize SQL Server workloads with Amazon EKS and DH2i

In this blog post, we will show you a simple and effective way to deploy Microsoft SQL Server Always On availability group containers in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with DH2i. Business-critical workloads running on SQL Server make high availability a key consideration when deploying on AWS. The challenge is that Kubernetes has a […]

Update AWS Tools for PowerShell at scale with AWS Systems Manager

In this blog post, I will show you how to update AWS Tools for PowerShell at scale within your environment by using the AWS Systems Manager Run Command. Manually updating AWS Tools for PowerShell across multiple instances can be time-consuming, inefficient, and error prone. These manual operational efforts typically result in a logistical nightmare, especially […]

Use Azure DevOps to deploy AWS Glue jobs in CI/CD pipeline

In this blog post, we will walk you through an example using AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps to deploy your AWS Glue jobs across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts to simulate development and production environments. Introduction AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data […]

How to generate TLS certificates for a highly available Remote Desktop Gateway Farm

Introduction In this blog post, I am going to show you how to generate, import, test, and troubleshoot a properly created Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate for a Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) farm. Secure management of your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances for Microsoft Windows Server is a top priority for any […]

Accelerate Remote Desktop Gateway deployments with AWS Launch Wizard

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 Cloud Compute (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 resources […]

Using Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate to automate Azure DevOps Hosted Agents

In this blog post, we will show you how to use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with AWS Fargate as hosted agents to deploy applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Microsoft Azure Pipelines. This is a continuation of a previous post about using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling with your […]

How to view Azure costs using Amazon QuickSight

Introducing the Cloud Intelligence Dashboard for Azure. Enhance cloud cost monitoring with Amazon QuickSight by integrating Microsoft Azure usage data.

How to copy data from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon S3 using code

Our customers tell us they want a reliable way to copy data from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Sometimes data needs to be moved just once, like during a migration. While other times, it needs to be copied continuously, like in a data pipeline. What’s common amongst these requests is […]

How to simplify certificate provisioning in Active Directory with AWS Private Certificate Authority

In this blog post, we will explore a new feature for AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA), Connector for Active Directory, that can help you more easily provision certificates for users and machines within your Microsoft Active Directory (AD) environment with just a few clicks. AWS Private CA can accelerate your provisioning and reduce […]

Using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to Manage Azure Pipelines Agent Capacity

In this blog post, we will show you how to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling with your self-hosted Amazon EC2 Azure Pipelines agents to deploy applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Azure DevOps. Introduction There are many ways that you can build and deploy your applications to AWS. You can […]