Category: Architecture

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 […]

Introduction This blog post shows how to deploy a highly available SQL Server instance in a container using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with persistent storage backed by Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Running databases and other stateful workloads in containers has grown significantly over the years. According to the CNCF Annual Survey […]

In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to use the OpenID Connect (OIDC) options in AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps version 1.15.0+ to federate into AWS accounts and obtain temporary credentials without managing static AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials. Introduction Azure DevOps Pipelines enable continuous build, test, and deployment across platforms and […]

Customers with multi-cloud environments struggle to effectively track and manage their usage and costs. They access the individual billing portals of each cloud provider to gather cost information. Without a consolidated view on cloud expenditure, making data-driven decisions to optimize costs becomes difficult. In September 2023 we introduced the Cloud Intelligence Dashboard for Azure. This […]

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 […]

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 […]

With Amazon Web Services (AWS), you have three main types of compute to choose from: instances, containers, and function-as-a-service. While all of them can be used to host .NET applications, choosing the right type can help you achieve the best possible architecture for your application. In this blog post, I review a few common types […]

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

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 […]

On November 18, 2022, we announced the general availability of the AWS Modernization Calculator for Microsoft Workloads. Using this tool, you can estimate the cost of modernizing your Microsoft workloads to a new architecture that uses open-source software and cloud-based services in the AWS cloud. It enables you to assess the benefits of using technologies […]