AWS Transform for .NET

By upgrading to the latest cross-platform .NET versions, our offering eliminates the need for Windows Server dependencies and associated licensing costs, enabling customers to fully embrace containerized Linux deployments on AWS.

By integrating these AWS tools into our transformation process, we’ve consistently delivered projects that achieve 80%+ unit test coverage, improved maintainability and seamless deployment readiness on AWS-native services. Whether you're dealing with large monoliths or aging web apps, our service enables a structured, automated and future-proof migration path to .NET 6/7/8.

• Delivery Mechanism: We begin with a structured discovery phase where we assess the customer’s existing .NET codebase, dependencies and infrastructure. Leveraging AWS Transform for .NET, we automate large portions of this assessment to accelerate planning and identify migration feasibility and complexity. We offer flexible delivery modes either as a fully managed transformation service or through a co-engineering model where we work alongside in-house teams. Engagements are typically time-boxed and milestone-driven, with clear success criteria such as test coverage, deployment readiness and AWS environment validation.

• Identify and Mitigate Risks: During the Discovery phase, we run AWS Transform for .NET in assessment mode and review the compatibility report. A custom toolchain matches legacy APIs to supported equivalents. Changes are validated through side-by-side functional testing and Git-based version control ensures rollback capability. We identify windows dependency risks during the initial architecture analysis and redesign them using cross-platform alternatives like Kestrel, environment variables, or platform-agnostic logging. We use Amazon Q Developer to auto-generate unit test scaffolds. Our team then identifies critical business flows (e.g. payment processing, order validation) and develops targeted integration and regression tests. Code coverage is tracked using Visual Studio tools and any component <70% is flagged. UAT ensures behavior parity between legacy and modern apps.

• Secure AWS Accounts Governance: Our internal Security Standard Operating Procedures include a well-defined and repeatable process for governing AWS accounts, whether we operate within customer-owned environments or provision of accounts on their behalf. We align these practices with the AWS Startup Security Baseline and the AWS Well-Architected Framework - Security Pillar.

• Security Controls: For long-running workloads (e.g. automation jobs), we require machine access to use IAM roles attached to EC2 instances or Lambda functions, not static credentials. For production workloads, we enforce environmental isolation using AWS Organizations and resource-level tagging to segregate access per OU/team. IAM Access Analyzer is used to generate least-privilege permissions after reviewing actual activity.

• Governance and Feedback: Each customer engagement is assigned a Project Manager who acts as the Customer Advocate throughout the project. A governance calendar is established during kickoff that defines when and how feedback will be gathered. All meetings include time to capture the Voice of the Customer including feedback on modernization tools (e.g. AWS Transform, Amazon Q)

Forgeahead .NET modernization offering is ideally suited for organizations with a significant footprint in legacy .NET applications particularly .NET framework 3.5 or 4.x transition to cross-platform .NET on Linux-based environments to eliminate Windows licensing overhead.

Typical customers include enterprise IT teams responsible for maintaining complex, business-critical applications that have grown difficult to evolve due to outdated codebases and infrastructure. We also work with software product companies (ISVs) aiming to modernize their platforms to align with cloud-native delivery models or prepare for SaaS transitions.

Additionally, it addresses the needs of organizations facing compliance, supportability or security pressures due to deprecated frameworks and who require a structured, reliable and accelerated path to modernization on AWS.