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3 days ago

Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server with AWS Managed Microsoft AD Hybrid Edition 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 [...]

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4 days ago

Modernize legacy .NET apps to Amazon EKS using Windows containers and CloudHedge CHAI 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 [...]

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5 days ago

Automate Microsoft Office LTSC golden image creation with AWS Image Builder Enterprises worldwide rely on Microsoft Office for critical business operations. AWS makes it straightforward to deploy Microsoft Office on individual Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances using the Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021 image from AWS Marketplace, as in the blog post How to Set Up Microsoft Office on Amazon EC2. This approach works well for small-scale deployments, [...]

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Automate Microsoft Office LTSC golden image creation with AWS Image Builder

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1 month ago

Gain organization-wide visibility into software licensing with AWS License Manager license asset groups 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 [...]

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Gain organization-wide visibility into software licensing with AWS License Manager license asset groups

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1 month ago

Introducing the AWS Well-Architected Microsoft Workloads Lens 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 [...]

📰 New article by Luciano Bernardes, Carlos Felicio, Bruno Lopes, Vitor Euphrasio da Silva

Introducing the AWS Well-Architected Microsoft Workloads Lens

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4 months ago

Introducing Kiro and MCP Tools for SQL Server professionals SQL Server professionals manage critical database systems that power enterprise applications, from financial platforms to ecommerce systems. Their responsibilities include optimizing query performance, managing schemas, ensuring high availability, and troubleshooting complex issues. With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), businesses are redesigning their workflows, enabling AI to independently complete tasks and achieve business goals. Customers [...]

📰 New article by Vikas Babu Gali, Piyush Mattoo, Sudhir Amin

Introducing Kiro and MCP Tools for SQL Server professionals

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4 months ago

What’s new in Microsoft SQL Server 2025 on AWS 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 leveraging [...]

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What’s new in Microsoft SQL Server 2025 on AWS

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4 months ago

Reduce Microsoft SQL Server High Availability costs running on Amazon EC2 AWS has helped hundreds of thousands of customers transition their SQL Server workloads to the cloud since 2008, longer than any other cloud provider. Running business-critical applications often requires Microsoft SQL Server databases to be highly available. Customers choosing to use SQL Server for their mission-critical workloads can achieve high availability by deploying SQL Server [...]

📰 New article by Vikas Babu Gali, Christine Megit, Blake Lyles

Reduce Microsoft SQL Server High Availability costs running on Amazon EC2

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4 months ago

Simplify SQL Server Developer edition deployments with AWS Launch Wizard Microsoft SQL Server Developer edition offers organizations a cost-effective solution for their non-production database workloads on AWS. While many enterprises rely on this edition for development and pre-production testing environments, the traditional deployment process can be cumbersome – requiring manual steps like logging into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, downloading installation media, and [...]

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Simplify SQL Server Developer edition deployments with AWS Launch Wizard

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4 months ago

How to deploy a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance across three Availability Zones using Storage Spaces Direct 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. [...]

📰 New article by Sabarinath Nair, Reghardt van Rooyen, Yogi Barot

How to deploy a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance across three Availability Zones using Storage Spaces Direct

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5 months ago

Simplify AWS License Manager user subscription management by sharing AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory 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 [...]

📰 New article by Chase Lindeman, Tanuvir Singh

Simplify AWS License Manager user subscription management by sharing AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory

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5 months ago

Microsoft workloads on AWS: Your complete re:Invent 2025 guide Are you ready to transform your Microsoft workloads with AI-powered modernization and migration capabilities? AWS re:Invent 2025 brings you an extensive lineup of sessions focused on .NET modernization, SQL Server migration, and Windows workload optimization. As we gear up for AWS re:Invent 2025, we’re thrilled to present an extensive lineup of sessions focused on Microsoft [...]

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Microsoft workloads on AWS: Your complete re:Invent 2025 guide

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5 months ago

Optimize CPUs best practices for SQL Server workloads – continued In this blog post, we will extend the analysis of the Optimize CPUs feature provided in a previous publication to other Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances suitable for deployment of Microsoft SQL Server workloads on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Introduction In our previous blog post, we detailed the Optimize CPUs feature [...]

📰 New article by Vikas Babu Gali, Reghardt van Rooyen, Alex Zarenin

Optimize CPUs best practices for SQL Server workloads – continued

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5 months ago

Testing AWS Managed Microsoft AD Resilience using AWS Fault Injection Service In this blog post I show how AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) can be used to test how your deployed services respond to the loss of access to a Microsoft Active Directory domain controller from the AWS Managed Microsoft AD service. To understand the behaviour of infrastructure deployed in AWS and prove that your configuration [...]

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Testing AWS Managed Microsoft AD Resilience using AWS Fault Injection Service

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6 months ago

Mastering Windows Server migration to Amazon EC2: Key tactics for success – Part 2 Introduction This two-part series equips you with essential knowledge for a successful Windows Server migration to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Part 1 laid the groundwork by exploring critical licensing decisions and Active Directory integration strategies. Building on that foundation, this post delves into the technical intricacies of preparing your Windows Server instances for [...]

📰 New article by George Chang, Ali Alzand, Andrea Soria, Sharon Chien

Mastering Windows Server migration to Amazon EC2: Key tactics for success – Part 2

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6 months ago

Extending on-premises MS SQL Server Always On Availability groups to Amazon EC2 for Disaster Recovery This post shows how to implement a hybrid disaster recovery solution by extending your on-premises Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Group (AOAG) to SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Introduction Many Organizations need cloud-based disaster recovery solutions that maintain critical on-premises operations while minimizing costs. This post demonstrates how to extend [...]

📰 New article by Ramesh Babu Donti, Subhani Shaik, Sai Krishna Namburu, Aswini Kumar

Extending on-premises MS SQL Server Always On Availability groups to Amazon EC2 for Disaster Recovery

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7 months ago

Extend your Active Directory domain to AWS with AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Hybrid Edition) Introduction Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Hybrid Edition of AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD). This new edition lets you extend your existing self-managed Active Directory (AD) domain to AWS Managed Microsoft AD while preserving your current identity and access infrastructure. AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Hybrid [...]

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Extend your Active Directory domain to AWS with AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Hybrid Edition)

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8 months ago

How TEKsystems Modernized a University’s Microsoft Workloads on AWS 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 [...]

📰 New article by Sivasekar Elumalai, Michael Collinson

How TEKsystems Modernized a University’s Microsoft Workloads on AWS

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8 months ago

Operating BYOL Windows Server Workloads Effectively on AWS One way that customers running Microsoft Workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) may reduce costs is taking advantage of Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for eligible licenses they own. In this blog post, we are going to share a few practices to help you optimize your operation of BYOL Windows Server workloads on AWS. Introduction [...]

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Operating BYOL Windows Server Workloads Effectively on AWS

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9 months ago

Mastering SQL Server Backups with T-SQL Snapshots and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP In this blog post, we will guide you through the process on performing a snapshot backup using native T-SQL based backup abilities and snapshot technology of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN).This method provide near-instant, consistent backups with negligible I/O, storage and compute capacity impact unlike traditional Microsoft SQL Server backups. Introduction Microsoft SQL Server [...]

📰 New article by Vikas Babu Gali, Nithin Radhakrishnan

Mastering SQL Server Backups with T-SQL Snapshots and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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9 months ago

Mastering SQL Server Backups with T-SQL Snapshots and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP In this blog post, we will guide you through the process on performing a snapshot backup using native T-SQL based backup abilities and snapshot technology of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSxN). This method provide near-instant, consistent backups with negligible I/O, storage and compute capacity impact unlike traditional Microsoft SQL Server backups. Introduction Microsoft SQL [...]

📰 New article by Vikas Babu Gali, Nithin Radhakrishnan

Mastering SQL Server Backups with T-SQL Snapshots and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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9 months ago

Deploy SQL Server Container Clusters using Amazon EKS and Amazon FSx for Windows Introduction Running databases and other stateful workloads in containers has grown significantly over the years. According to the CNCF Annual Survey 2024, 74% of organizations are using containers to manage stateful applications, up 10% from 2023. Running SQL Server in containers offers several benefits. You can quickly create and start multiple SQL Server instances for [...]

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Deploy SQL Server Container Clusters using Amazon EKS and Amazon FSx for Windows

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9 months ago

Modernize .NET applications at scale with AWS Transform for .NET Introduction This blog post will walk you through a sample transformation using the new AWS Transform for .NET web experience. You’ll learn how to set up your environment, configure connections, execute the transformation process, and analyze results. Organizations running .NET Framework applications face growing challenges with licensing costs, scalability, and security while continuing to rely [...]

📰 New article by Renuka Krishnan, Vijay Mandadi, Neeraj Handa

Modernize .NET applications at scale with AWS Transform for .NET

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9 months ago

Port your .NET Framework applications to Linux with AWS Transform for .NET Recently, we announced the general availability of AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale. With AWS Transform for .NET, you can accelerate modernization of .NET Framework applications to cross-platform .NET by up to 4x. Since .NET 8 and later are cross-platform, you can run your .NET 8 [...]

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Port your .NET Framework applications to Linux with AWS Transform for .NET

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9 months ago

Testing 3-tier Windows app resilience on AWS with Resilience Testing Resilience testing has emerged as a critical practice for organizations seeking to build and maintain resilient cloud applications. As environments grow more complex, more comprehensive testing methods become necessary. Resilience testing principles can be applied to Windows workloads on AWS to create controlled experiments that test system behavior under stress. These experiments can help you [...]

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Testing 3-tier Windows app resilience on AWS with Resilience Testing

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9 months ago

How to use persistent storage with AWS Elastic Beanstalk Windows deployment. Introduction This blog post demonstrates how to use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server(FSxW) as persistent SMB storage for Windows applications running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The solution addresses common challenges with configuring persistent storage and enables direct access to SMB shares within AWS Elastic Beanstalk Windows environments while maintaining application performance, flexibility, and security [...]

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How to use persistent storage with AWS Elastic Beanstalk Windows deployment.

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9 months ago

Accelerating .NET modernization with AWS Transform for .NET and CAST This post has been co-written by Nits Jeganathan, Vijay Mandadi, Rakshith Ravi Kumar from AWS and Nicolas Bidaux, Gaby Choucrallah, Damien Santé from CAST In today’s rapidly evolving cloud landscape, modernizing legacy .NET applications is a great opportunity for enterprises to transform their application portfolio. However, modernization presents challenges due to limited expertise and resource-intensive [...]

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Accelerating .NET modernization with AWS Transform for .NET and CAST

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9 months ago

Automating SQL Server Point-in-Time Recovery Using EBS Snapshots This blog post introduces a new AWS feature that enables point-in-time recovery for SQL Server using EBS snapshots. It offers a detailed walkthrough for creating VSS-integrated snapshots and restoring SQL Server databases using EBS snapshots to simplify database backups and automate point-in-time restore. Introduction Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced support for restoring Microsoft SQL [...]

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Automating SQL Server Point-in-Time Recovery Using EBS Snapshots

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10 months ago

How to Use ACM PCA Connector for AD to enable LDAPS for Your Self-Managed AD In this blog, we will explore how to use the ACM PCA Connector for AD as your self-managed AD PKI solution to enable server side LDAPS, discuss the architecture, and provide a step-by-step guide to set it up. Introduction Managing a robust and secure Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is crucial for enterprises running Microsoft Active [...]

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How to Use ACM PCA Connector for AD to enable LDAPS for Your Self-Managed AD

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10 months ago

Harness Amazon Q Business power with Amazon FSx file server for enterprise search. Introduction In today’s business landscape, organizations look for ways to extract insights from their growing data assets and rely on their file server infrastructure to store, manage, and share critical data. The volume and complexity of data creates challenges to maximize its value. Companies need a new strategy to overcome these obstacles. Amazon Q Business [...]

📰 New article by Mangesh Budkule, Farshad Bidanjiri, Siavash Irani

Harness Amazon Q Business power with Amazon FSx file server for enterprise search.

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