Assess, Migrate and Operate Microsoft Workloads on AWS

In this workshop we walk through a complete customer migration journey for Windows workloads from assessment to building new applications. Episodes in this workshop will feature hands-on demonstrations leveraging AWS services to help you understand licensing and cost optimization, configuration and provisioning, migrating and rehosting, day 2 operations and management and developing new applications. Whether you work with Windows Server, SQL or .NET, you’ll find great tips, tricks and tools to simplify your Microsoft on AWS journey. Join us for the entire series, attend single episodes or pass along to colleagues to accelerate your Windows on AWS journey.

Virtual Workshop Episodes

Need to cost model SQL BYOL vs License Included, need to compare on-premise license requirements to share tenancy, what about an accurate TCO that includes AWS costs and your sunk costs of annual Software Assurance? What about a detailed comparison of on-premise, shared tenancy, and dedicated tenancy. If these are questions you have asked or been asked to provide, then this session is for you! In this session we'll show you how you can efficiently plan and model the costs of Windows workloads.

Learning objectives:

  • Cost Analysis for Running Windows Workloads in AWS.
  • Hands on TCO Modeling.

Who should attend: Windows / Microsoft Customers, Large Enterprise IT Admin, Greenfield Enterprise, Windows Admins, .Net Developers, SQL Admins, Microsoft Ops

Speakers: Rafet Ducic, Sr. Microsoft Technology Solution Architect, AWS

AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server is the primary way to deploy and configure SQL single instance and high availability on EC2. Join this workshop to learn how you can use Launch Wizard to simplify SQL Server sizing, configuration, and deployment. We will walk through how to use the guided Launch Wizard for SQL single instance and high availability deployments, including both Always On availability groups and Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) instances with FSx.

Learning objectives:

  • Using AWS launch Wizard to simplify SQL Server sizing, configuration, and deployment.
  • Hands on demo of Launch Wizard.

Who should attend: Windows / Microsoft Customers, Large Enterprise IT Admin, Greenfield Enterprise, Windows Admins, .Net Developers, SQL Admins, Microsoft Ops

Speakers: Yogi Barot, Microsoft Technology Specialist Senior Solution Architect, AWS

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is the primary migration service recommended for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS. Join this workshop to see how you can use AWS MGN to quickly migrate applications to the cloud without changes and with minimal downtime. Attendees of this workshop will learn key concepts, basic architecture, and implementation approaches for AWS MGN. We'll finish by guiding you through the process of performing a migration.

Learning objectives:

  • How to use AWS MGN to quickly migrate Windows applications to the cloud.
  • Hands on demo of AWS Application Migration Service.

Who should attend: Windows and Microsoft Customers, IT Administrators, Windows Admins, .Net Developers, SQL Admins, Microsoft Ops

Speakers: Greg Eppel, Tech Leader, Microsoft Workloads, AWS

Once you’ve migrated your Microsoft Windows workloads to AWS, its time to consider how to manage and operate in this new environment. Where do you start? With what services? Join this session for a hands on walk-through showing how to build and manage logging, patching, configuration drift, inventory, licensing, and more to simplify operations of your Windows on AWS environment.

Learning objectives:

  • Operations for Microsoft Windows workloads in AWS.
  • Hands on walk-through showing how to build and manage logging, patching, configuration drift, inventory, and licensing.

Who should attend: Windows and Microsoft Customers, IT Administrators, Windows Admins, .Net Developers, SQL Admins, Microsoft Ops

Speakers: Aaron Lima, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

In this workshop, we’ll provide you with an overview of .NET on AWS options for developers. You’ll have a hands-on lab to explore three different options to build and deploy .NET applications using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. These include deployment to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Elastic Container Service using AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda. Then, there will be a lab exercise that demonstrates using the AWS SDK for .NET in three ways to call Amazon DynamoDB, the AWS NoSQL managed service.

Learning objectives:

  • .NET on AWS options for developers.
  • .NET applications using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio.

Who should attend: Windows and Microsoft Customers, IT Administrators, Windows Admins, .Net Developers, SQL Admins, Microsoft Ops

Speakers: Craig Bossie, Solutions Architect, Microsoft Workloads, AWS

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