The document discusses AWS services for .NET development. It provides an overview of AWS services that support .NET like Lambda, EC2, RDS, and ECS. It also outlines the timeline of AWS innovations for .NET dating back to 2008 with services added for Windows, SQL Server, and .NET Core support on Linux. The document promotes AWS as a good platform for .NET applications and microservices.

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.NET on AWS
Martin Beeby
@thebeebs
mbeeby@amazon.com

2. @ t h e b e e b s
M a r t i n B e e b y
@ t h e b e e b s
A software developer since I was 16
Developer for 20 years
Work at Amazon Web Services
MARTIN BEEBY
@THEBEEBS

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11 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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Publish to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

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Publish to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

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12. Leading Containers Offerings for .NET
 .NET Core on Linux
 .NET Core on Windows
 .NET Framework on
Windows
 .NET Core on Linux
Amazon Elastic Container Service
 .NET Core on Linux
 .NET Core on Windows
 .NET Framework on
Windows
Amazon Elastic Container
Service for Kubernetes

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Migrating Business
Critical Applications
to AWS
Dean Garvey-North

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Who Are GBG?
GBG is a global specialist in identity data intelligence.
We offer a series of solutions that help organisations quickly validate and
verify the identity and location of their customers.
In really simple terms, we enable our customers to onboard as many
good customers as quickly as possible. More good customers means
greater growth and revenue, fewer bad customers equals operational and
cost savings.
Our software products are built on an unparalleled depth and breadth of
data obtained from over 200 global partners. Our innovative technology
leads the world in location intelligence, detects fraud and enables us to
verify the identity of 4.4 billion people globally. And, our team of experts
ensure our customers are always armed with the most relevant
information to help them succeed.
With over 18,000 customers in 79 countries, we work with some of the
best-known businesses around the world, ranging from US eCommerce
giants to Asia’s biggest banks, and European household brands. At some
point in your week, you’ll use GBG tech without even knowing

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How We View Identity
Digital
› Device ID
› IP address
› Social ID
› Cookies
Biometric
› DNA
› Fingerprints
› Retina
› Face
› Voice
Attributed
› Name & address
› Passport
› Social security
› Education qualifications
› Payment details
Behavioural
› Interests
› Likes
› Dislikes
› Usage patterns

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Application Highlights
Landline Validation
Microservice called by a number of GBG Applications
Real-time Validation of UK landline numbers
200,000 telephone numbers processed every day
Technology pioneered by GBG

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Running .NET app in AWS

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Issues faced with on-prem solution
Downtime needed
for maintenance
Availability of the
application for our
Customers
Ageing
Architecture with
unstable OS
Difficult to make a
microservice and
integration for
customers
Convoluted data
extract
mechanism
Response times and
onboarding new
customers

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.NET Design in AWS
Use of Elastic
Beanstalk
Real-time response
through Aurora
MySQL
Lambda for self-healing
and data updates
Visual Studio Toolkit

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Issues faced
when started to
deploy .NET app
Identify potential blockers and
address them early!
1.Understanding the Elastic Beanstalk
Dashboards after deployments..
2.Debugging deployments through Visual
Studio
3.Fear of change caused issues in the early
stages. People not want to move to cloud.

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Why We Migrated
Platform Stability
Availability of the application
for our Customers
Throughput and
Capacity Limits
Response times and New
Customers
Operational
Efficiencies
Enhancing the customer
service
Re-Architecting the solution enabled GBG to use the application as a
microservice

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Lessons Learnt from Migration
It’s a business
change
Your team can
do it
Re-define
operational and
release processes
Start testing early

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Lessons Learnt from .NET deployment
Innovate - there
is no limit
AWS toolkit for
Visual Studio is
Awesome!
The cloud is
super secure
How Powerful
LAMBDA Is

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www.gbgplc.com
Dean.north@gbgplc.com
Contact

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Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

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The Almighty Answer to the Meaning of Life, the
Universe, and Everything. Was calculated by the
computer Deep Thought for seven million years.
The answer was “42”
Hitchhickers Guide to The Galaxy

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Lambda Layers
Lets functions easily share code: Upload layer
once, reference within any function
Promote separation of responsibilities, lets
developers iterate faster on writing business logic
Built in support for secure sharing by ecosystem
In .net use to cache Nuget Packages

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Lambda Runtime API
We support .net 2.1 and PowerShell by default
Bring any Linux compatible language runtime, like
.net 3.0 or .net 5 when it comes out
Powered by new Runtime API - Codifies the
runtime calling conventions and integration points
Custom runtimes distributed as “layers”
Rule
Stack

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Lambda S3
public async Task FunctionHandler(S3Event input, ILambdaContext context)
{
foreach(var record in input.Records)
{
}
}

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Right Image Format
if(!SupportedImageTypes.Contains(Path.GetExtension(record.S3.Object.Key)))
{
Console.WriteLine($"Object {record.S3.Bucket.Name}:{record.S3.Object.Key} is not a
supported image type");
continue;
}

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Detect Async

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Get Labels

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Add tags to S3 objects

38. Thank you!
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Martin Beeby
@thebeebs
mbeeby@amazon.com
https://github.com/aws/dotnet
https://thebeebs.co.uk