Running Microsoft Workloads on AWS : Active Directory, Databases, Development, and More

Table of Contents About the Author About the Technical Reviewers Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Wait, I Can Run Windows on AWS? Why Cloud? What Are Your Goals in Moving to the Cloud? Chapter 2: AWS 101 AWS Accounts Regions and Availability Zones Designing for Availability Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Security Groups and NACLs Identity and Access Management Responsibility Model Security Monitoring Further Learning Summary Chapter 3: Server Amazon EC2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Amazon EC2 Instance Type Configuring Your Instance Storage Tags Security Groups Review, Key Pairs, and Launch! EC2Launch Amazon EC2 Startup Amazon Machine Image AWS Image Builder Amazon Elastic Block Storage AWS FSx for Windows File Server Saving Money with Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances Savings Plans Spot Instances Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts and Instances Licensing Bringing Licenses to Shared or Default Tenancy Options for BYOL Without License Mobility AWS License Manager AWS Systems Manager AWS End-of-Support Migration Program (AWS EMP) Summary Chapter 4: Databases Versions and Editions SQL Server Licensing Availability and Resilience in SQL Server Transaction Log Shipping Database Mirroring Replication Windows Server Failover Clustering (Always On Failover Cluster Instances) Always On Availability Groups (Enterprise Edition Only) Basic Availability Groups (Standard Edition) Distributed Availability Groups SQL Server on Amazon EC2 AWS Quick Start AWS Launch Wizard Creating a SQL Server Always On Availability Group Cluster Performance of SQL Server on EC2 Amazon RDS Migrating Your Database to AWS Planning AWS Database Migration Service The Schema Conversion Tool AWS Babelfish Amazon Aurora and Other Database Services Legacy SQL Server Workloads SQL Server on Linux Summary Chapter 5: Developing on AWS Porting Assistant for .NET The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio AWS Tools for PowerShell Infrastructure as Code AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application Architecture Immutable Infrastructures AWS Developer Services AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeBuild AWS CodePipeline AWS CodeDeploy AWS CodeStar AWS Cloud9 Summary Chapter 6: Serverless Event-Driven Architecture Under the Hood Amazon API Gateway AWS DynamoDB Amazon RDS Proxy The Basics of a .NET Core AWS Lambda Function The Performance of Your Function Pulling It All Together with AWS Step Functions AWS Lambda Layers Integrating Your Applications Using AWS EventBridge When Things Go Wrong – Amazon X-Ray Summary Chapter 7: Containers Microservices It Works on My Machine Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) AWS Elastic Container Registry AWS Fargate AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) The 6-Gigabyte Elephant in the Room Windows Nano Server Windows Server 2019 Supporting Containers AWS App Mesh AWS Cloud Map Summary Chapter 8: Operational Integration Trade CapEx for OpEx (Help Me Save Money) Benefit from Massive Economies of Scale Stop Guessing Capacity Increase Speed and Agility Stop Spending Money on Data Centers Go Global in Minutes Innovation Security Cloud Adoption Framework Cloud Center of Excellence Cloud Operating Models Challenges in Moving to the Cloud Summary Chapter 9: Migration The Business of Migration AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) The Migration Bubble Cost-Effective Migrations AWS Migration Evaluator AWS Application Discovery Service Migration Prioritization Migration Tooling AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) CloudEndure (An AWS Company) AWS Application Migration Service AWS Database Migration Service AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) Moving Large Files Summary Chapter 10: Identity Active Directory 101 Active Directory in AWS Active Directory on Amazon EC2 Managing DNS When Using AD on Amazon EC2 AWS AD Connector AWS Directory Services for Microsoft Active Directory Other Directories AWS Single Sign-On Summary Index Did you know that Amazon Web Services runs nearly double the amount of Microsoft Workloads in the cloud than any other provider? Running Microsoft Workloads in AWS is your single-source solution for learning the best practice skills and guidance that AWS consultants offer their customers in the field. Over 70% of enterprise workloads are based on Microsoft technologies and AWS has been running these technologies in the AWS Cloud for more than 12 years—far longer than Microsoft’s own Azure cloud platform. This book introduces AWS foundations and compares them to traditional Microsoft architectures, showing you how to design your AWS Cloud platform to run your current Microsoft solutions. It covers the crucial area of identity and access control, showing how to implement Active Directory inside the AWS platform and the most secure ways of enabling Single Sign On from your own data centers and from Microsoft AzureAD. The book goes in-depth and shows how developers across the globe are using their existing .NET skills to develop directly on top of AWS, using current AWS development services such as AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Build, and AWS Code Deploy to create the next generation of cloud-native applications using the most popular cloud serverless service—AWS Lambda. What You Will Learn Be familiar with the basic building blocks of AWS and how the terminology differs from your own data center and Microsoft Azure Understand Amazon Machine Images (AMI) strategies and solutions to best manage the trade-off between speed and manageability Run one of the most popular Microsoft products: SQL Server on AWS Be aware of the different database architecture designs for using Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 Read an overview of Serverless Development in the AWS cloud from a Microsoft .NET perspective Know migration strategies for moving your Microsoft Workloads tothe AWS Cloud Who This Book Is For Covers high-level concepts and solutions for CTOs and CCTOs; provides a solution for architects; and dives deep into the topic for administrators and DevOps engineers Did you know that Amazon Web Services runs nearly double the amount of Microsoft Workloads in the cloud than any other provider? Running Microsoft Workloads in AWS is your single-source solution for learning the best practice skills and guidance that AWS consultants offer their customers in the field. Over 70% of enterprise workloads are based on Microsoft technologies and AWS has been running these technologies in the AWS Cloud for more than 12 years—far longer than Microsoft's own Azure cloud platform. This book introduces AWS foundations and compares them to traditional Microsoft architectures, showing you how to design your AWS Cloud platform to run your current Microsoft solutions. It covers the crucial area of identity and access control, showing how to implement Active Directory inside the AWS platform and the most secure ways of enabling Single Sign On from your own data centers and from Microsoft AzureAD. The book goes in-depth and shows how developers across the globe are using their existing .NET skills to develop directly on top of AWS, using current AWS development services such as AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Build, and AWS Code Deploy to create the next generation of cloud-native applications using the most popular cloud serverless service—AWS Lambda. What You Will Learn Be familiar with the basic building blocks of AWS and how the terminology differs from your own data center and Microsoft Azure Understand Amazon Machine Images (AMI) strategies and solutions to best manage the trade-off between speed and manageability Run one of the most popular Microsoft products: SQL Server on AWS Be aware of the different database architecture designs for using Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 Read an overview of Serverless Development in the AWS cloud from a Microsoft .NET perspective Know migration strategies for moving your Microsoft Workloads to the AWS Cloud Who This Book Is For Covers high-level concepts and solutions for CTOs and CCTOs; provides a solution for architects; and dives deep into the topic for administrators and DevOps engineers Did you know that Amazon Web Services runs nearly double the amount of Microsoft Workloads in the cloud than any other provider? Running Microsoft Workloads in AWS is your single-source solution for learning the best practice skills and guidance that AWS consultants offer their customers in the field. Over 70% of enterprise workloads are based on Microsoft technologies and AWS has been running these technologies in the AWS Cloud for more than 12 years far longer than Microsoft's own Azure cloud platform. This book introduces AWS foundations and compares them to traditional Microsoft architectures, showing you how to design your AWS Cloud platform to run your current Microsoft solutions. It covers the crucial area of identity and access control, showing how to implement Active Directory inside the AWS platform and the most secure ways of enabling Single Sign On from your own data centers and from Microsoft AzureAD. The book goes in-depth and shows how developers across the globe are using their existing .NET skills to develop directly on top of AWS, using current AWS development services such as AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Build, and AWS Code Deploy to create the next generation of cloud-native applications using the most popular cloud serverless services WS Lambda. You will: Be familiar with the basic building blocks of AWS and how the terminology differs from your own data center and Microsoft Azure Understand Amazon Machine Images (AMI) strategies and solutions to best manage the trade-off between speed and manageability Run one of the most popular Microsoft products: SQL Server on AWS Be aware of the different database architecture designs for using Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 Read an overview of Serverless Development in the AWS cloud from a Microsoft .NET perspective Know migration strategies for moving your Microsoft Workloads to the AWS Cloud.