This session covers best practices, features, and capabilities that users of Microsoft products can leverage in AWS. We emphasize Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory, and .NET capabilities available and deeply integrated in AWS. With these learnings, you can extend the value of your Microsoft investments, lower total cost of ownership (TCO), and keep users working in familiar environments.

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Best practices for running Windows
workloads on AWS
Ryan Pothecary, AWS Professional Services
Difa Niculescu, Tandem Bank
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10
Years
Helping customers run and scale
Windows Workloads in the cloud
400%
Growth
Between 2015 and 2018 of AWS
enterprise customers using Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for
Windows Server
Windows momentum on AWS

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Public cloud leaders
prevail in the Windows
market segment of the
infrastructure as a
service market
IDC, Windows Server Operating Environment Market Update, Doc # US44217118, Aug 2018
Note: Includes Windows instances deployed in the public
cloud IaaS market during 2017 Source: IDC estimates, 2018https://d1.awsstatic.com/analyst-reports/IDC_Slide_WindowsonAWS_JM181015.pdf
Worldwide Windows Public Cloud IaaS
Instances by Cloud Provider, 2017
57.7%
Azure
30.9%
Others
11.4%

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10 years of innovation for Windows on AWS
CustomerAdoption
2008
Visual Studio Toolkit
Microsoft SCOM plug-in release.
Microsoft SharePoint 2016 (Marketplace)
Microsoft SCVMM Plug-in
SAP instance on AWS 2012
Trusted Advisor checks for Windows
Hyper-V support in SMS
Windows for Lightsail
Application-consistent
Snapshots through VSS
AWS Directory Service
Sessions Manager
Dedicated Host
Enhancement Tag-On
EC2 Dedicated Hosts (BYOL)
EC2 Run Command
EC2 Systems Manager
EC2 Dedicated
Instances (BYOL)
EC2 Windows on Bare Metal/Hyper-V AMI
WS 2008 & SQL Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 1803
Windows Server 2003
SQL 2017 AMI AL2/Ubuntu
SQL Server 2008 R2
Amazon RDS adds SQL Server
SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2008 R2
SQL Server 2016
2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 Today
143 instance types, 37 instance families
60 different AMIs for Windows workloads
.NET Core & Powershell on AL2/Ubuntu
Windows Deep Learning AMI
.NET Core 2.1 on Linux AMIs
Lambda Support for
PowerShell Core
Amazon ECS for Windows Containers
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
.NET SDK
DynamoDB Accelerator SDK for .NET
.NET on Lambda & AWS CodeBuild
.NET Core 2.1 Support with Lambda & X-Ray
X-Ray .NET SDK
.NET Developer Hub
AWS X-Ray .NET Core Support
.NET Developer Hub

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Best Practice

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Services
AWS Systems Manager
In-place Automation
AWS Directory Services Session Manager
SERVICES

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AWS Systems Manager Components
Take Action on AWS Resources
Run Command State Manager Inventory Maintenance
Window
Patch Manager Automation Parameter Store Documents
Session Manager
SERVICES

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Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Learn more at aws.amazon.com/fsx/windows
Windows native for fully
compatible Windows File
System experience
Secure and compliant
including PCI-DSS,
ISO, and HIPAA
No hardware or
software to manage
Up to 10s of GB/s
throughput with sub-
millisecond latencies
NEW SERVICES

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.NET developer experience
aws.amazon.com/developer/language/net/
AWS Lambda Support
for .NET Core &
PowerShell
Cloud Development Kit
(CDK) for .NET
EC2 AMIs for .NET Core
BUILD
Modern apps
DEPLOY
DevOps
RUN
Pre-configured
PowerShell tool of choice Package best practices Deploy and run .NET faster
AUTOMATION

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Containers
Windows Images on EKS (Public Beta Open Now)
ECS Windows support since 2017
SERVICES

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Flexibility to enforce
license usage
Learn more at aws.amazon.com/license-manager
Announcing AWS License Manager
Leverage native
AWS Services
Manage licenses across
hybrid environments
NEW COST

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License Manager enables hybrid IT licensing
Define rules for your licensed
software from Microsoft,
Oracle, IBM, SAP, and others
NEW
Choose a license counting
type: vCPU, physical cores,
physical sockets, or number
of instances
Choose whether to
enforce a license limit
3
At-a-glance summary of
licenses and usage limits
See whether or not limits
are enforced
License Manager helps manage usage limits
Windows Server on AWS
IBM DB2 on AWS
Oracle Database on AWS
On-premises SQL Server
Across cloud and on-premises

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Flexible options for Microsoft licenses
in the AWS Cloud
1. Flexible pay-as-you-go licensing
choices
Shared tenancy
for License Mobility
eligible products with
Software Assurance
AWS licensing
Buy license-included
instances from AWS
(Windows Server, SQL
Server)
Bring licenses to AWS
1
2 3Dedicated options for
licenses not eligible for
License Mobility
1
2
3
Bring your license mobility
benefits to AWS
Bring your legacy licenses to
AWS without paying software
assurance

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Application migration using AWS SMS
Pre-built launch
templates
Faster migrations
Centralized
management
NEW

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Pillars of cost optimisation for compute
Operate
and
Optimise
1. Right-size instances
ü Leverage newest instance families
ü Provide standardized configurations to developers
2. Increase elasticity
ü Smaller instances with auto-scaling
ü License-included instances for spikey workloads
ü Turn-off non-production instances
3. Leverage EC2 purchasing options
ü On demand initially and for spikey workloads
ü Convertible Reserved Instances provide flexibility
ü Design-in Spot instances

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