Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a new workflow template that improves the experience of importing your on-premises virtual machine (VM) images using the AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator console. Previously, when importing Windows Server or Linux VM images using the VM Import/Export service, customers could only use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or […]

In this blog post, we will share the top 10 recommendations to help you lower your costs and improve performance when running your Windows Server workloads on AWS. The first step you can take is select the right Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family, size, and licensing option for your workloads. Different instance […]

Introduction In this blog post, we will walk through how to automate the creation of an Azure DevOps release pipeline that deploys containerized applications to AWS. This solution will save you time and effort if you’re using Azure DevOps for version control or CI/CD and if you’re modernizing your applications using containers. We will use […]

Thermo Fisher team designed a solution to pull business context data from Microsoft SharePoint and enrich data pipeline hosted on AWS to build sales and inventory BI reports.

For many organizations, modernization is the message of the moment. They want to get better scalability and save on costs by migrating and modernizing their workloads on cloud. Databases are a key foundational element of modernizing the IT stack, but organizations don’t know where to start. Working with an AWS Partner takes both the technical […]

In this blog post, I will share results for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL performance testing using the HammerDB database benchmarking tool. Based upon the results of testing various Aurora for PostgreSQL clusters hosting Babelfish, I will also provide recommendations on the optimal instance selection from the price-performance viewpoint. This blog post concludes with a summary […]

In this blog post, I will provide details on how to set up Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL for performance analysis using the HammerDB performance tool. 1.   Introduction Whether it’s a component of migrating to AWS or optimizing workloads already on AWS, customers are looking at the options to modernize their SQL Server workloads. An attractive […]

CDK offers a high-level abstraction to define AWS resources using modern programming languages. Among its components, it provides aws-s3-assets, which is a high level construct that abstracts packaging AWS Lambda functions. The default behavior of this construct is to zip all the content into a folder and upload it to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. That works great for Lambda runtimes like Python or Node.js, which do not require code compilation, but for .NET, Java, or Go, which requires code compilation, you’ll need extra steps to restore external dependencies, compile the code, and publish the binary. This post will explore how to streamline building, packaging, and publishing .NET Lambda functions using AWS CDK.

In this blog post, I will show you how to use the new Dedicated Host packing and pricing capability for Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server in the AWS Pricing Calculator. This used to be a manual process, but our customers wanted us to automate it—so here we are. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon […]

In this blog post, I will detail how to create a cost-effective, secure, and resilient VPN remote access architecture on AWS. With the increasing number of full-time remote employees and a mobile workforce, the requirement for remote access has moved from a nice-to-have feature to one that can have a significant financial impact in the […]