Category: Windows on AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced license asset groups as a new feature for AWS License Manager to help you track license usage in a single AWS account or across different AWS accounts and regions in your AWS Organization. In our previous blog post, we explained how you can utilize license asset groups to build […]

Introduction This blog post shows you how to back up, replicate, and restore the Microsoft SQL Server encryption key hierarchy across AWS Regions. This approach lets encrypted databases recover successfully during cross-region disaster recovery (DR) events on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Cross-region DR planning for SQL Server on Amazon EC2 focuses on database […]

Enterprises struggle to integrate AI capabilities into existing applications without costly code changes. Traditional approaches require modifying application layers, updating APIs, and extensive testing cycles—all of which extend time-to-market and increase project risk. This post demonstrates how you can reduce time-to-market by invoking AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore directly from Microsoft SQL Server 2025. […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

In this blog, we’ll demonstrate how to architect and implement a high-availability Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) with SQL Server using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) across three Availability Zones (AZs). This approach transcends the traditional two-AZ limitations of Amazon FSx and one-AZ limitation of EBS multi-attach. […]

In this blog, we’re going to show you how AWS License Manager can leverage the directory sharing feature available from AWS Directory Services for AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) to centrally manage user subscriptions services while using multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. AWS License Manager offers you user-based subscriptions for […]