In this session, we discuss best practices and approaches for managing your Microsoft Windows-based infrastructure on AWS. We describe the AWS services that can help you manage Windows servers at scale and realize the maximum benefit of the cloud. In addition, we show you how to build simple and effective solutions to manage logging, configuration drift, inventory, licensing, and more. Please join us for a speaker meet-and-greet following this session at the Speaker Lounge (ARIA East, Level 1, Willow Lounge). The meet-and-greet starts 15 minutes after the session and runs for half an hour.

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Operationalizing Microsoft
Workloads
Lou De La Torre
Sr. Manager, Solutions
Architecture
AWS
W I N 3 2 0
Siavash Irani
Sr. Solutions Architect
AWS
Purvi Goyal
Sr. Product Manager
EC2
AWS

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Agenda
Infrastructure
provisioning
Configuration
management
Governance &
compliance
Monitoring &
performance
Resource
optimization

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Infrastructure
provisioning
Configuration
management
Governance &
compliance
Monitoring &
performance
Resource
optimization

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What are the steps to build an environment?
AWS
CloudFormation
Availability Zone
Private Subnet
Availability Zone
Private Subnet
Remote
Users
IIS
App
IIS
Web
IIS
App
IIS
Web
AWS
Directory
Service
AWS
Directory
Service
MS
SQL
MS
SQL

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AWS CloudFormation
• Automated
• Repeatable

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AWS Quick Starts
https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/

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Infrastructure
provisioning
Configuration
management
Governance &
compliance
Monitoring &
performance
Resource
optimization

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Managing your Windows instances
Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2)
AWS Systems Manager
Run Command
AWS Systems Manager
Session Manager
Tools Tasks Target

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Running PowerShell
AWS Systems Manager
Run Command
AWS Systems Manager
Session Manager
InteractiveNon-interactive
Good for bulk administrative changes Good for full, interactive access

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Secure remote configuration management
Availability Zone
Web security group
Private subnet
Accept traffic from SSM
WEB2
WEB1
AWS administrator
Corporate data center
AWS Systems Manager
Amazon S3
bucket
SNS topic Amazon CloudWatch
metric
Amazon
IAM policy

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Patching Microsoft Windows in the cloud
Up-to-date
instances
Out-dated
instances
AWS Systems Manager
Maintenance Windows
AWS Systems Manager
Patch Manager

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AWS Systems Manager
Maintenance Windows
AWS Systems Manager
Patch Manager
• Scan instances for missing patches
Create recurring schedules to perform
administrative tasks
Create baselines that include
rules for auto approving patches
Apply missing patches individually
or to bulk instances using tags Integrates with AWS Systems Manager
Run command, Automation, AWS
Lambda, AWS Step Functions

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Keeping your golden images up to date
Up-to-date AMIOut-dated AMI

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Simplify common IT tasks
Support for Run command, Lambda functions, AWS APIs
Express your workflow as automation steps in a JSON-
based document

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Infrastructure
provisioning
Configuration
management
Governance &
compliance
Monitoring &
performance
Resource
optimization

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Visibility into Cloud Resources and Applications
Service and application availability
Monitor individual systems and applications
Detect and Troubleshoot problems
Set-up monitoring infrastructure and systems

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Monitoring Windows workloads using Amazon
CloudWatch
Monitor and Manage AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources.
Get Visibility
• Windows Performance Counters
• IIS Logs, SQL Server Logs,
custom application log
Monitor
• High resolution alarms
• Custom dashboards
Take Action

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Observability for N-tier .NET applications

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Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights for .NET &
SQL Server
Machine learning based
anomaly detection for
metrics and logs
Visualize root cause with
Amazon CloudWatch
Automatic Dashboards
Improved
customer experience
Easily and quickly detect and diagnose common problems with .NET and SQL Server
applications

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Examples
• SQL Server errors such as Failed backups, Scheduler deadlocks
• .NET application problems such as Memory leaks, custom log errors
• Elastic Load Balancer such as latencies due to high CPU on application server

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Getting Started
Limited Preview:
https://pages.awscloud.com/cloudwatch-applicationinsights-preview.html

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Infrastructure
provisioning
Configuration
management
Governance &
compliance
Monitoring &
performance
Resource
optimization

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Keeping inventory
Amazon EC2
Tools Items Target
AWS Systems
Manager Inventory

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AWS Systems Manager
Inventory
Enables you to manage application assets, track licenses,
monitor file integrity, discover applications …
Collects information about your instances and the
software installed on them

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Managing configuration drift
Amazon EC2
Tools Tasks Target
AWS Systems Manager
State Manager

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AWS Systems Manager
State Manager
Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises instances
Configuration management
Configuration policies

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Infrastructure
provisioning
Configuration
management
Governance &
compliance
Monitoring &
performance
Resource
optimization

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Fine-tuning your Microsoft workloads in the cloud
What to fine tune?
Amazon EC2
Target
AWS Trusted Advisor
Tools

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Core checks and
recommendations available to all
AWS customers
Security
AWS Service limits
Full Trusted Advisor benefits
available with business or
enterprise support plans
Security
AWS service limits
Cost optimization
Performance
Fault tolerance
AWS Trusted Advisor

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Infrastructure
provisioning
Configuration
management
Governance &
compliance
Monitoring &
performance
Resource
optimization
Summary
AWS
CloudFormation
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Trusted Advisor
Amazon CloudWatch Amazon CloudWatch
Application Insights for .NET
and SQL Server (preview)

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Next steps
Apply what you’ve learned
• Revisit and assess your existing lifecycle management process
• Reinvent lifecycle management on AWS by leveraging the tools and services we discussed
Learn more
• Attend other AWS for Microsoft sessions
• WIN301 – Migration Microsoft Applications to AWS Like an Expert
• WIN306 – Simplifying Microsoft Architectures with AWS Services
• WIN303 – Microsoft Active Directory Deep Dive
• WIN307 – Security Best Practices for Microsoft Workloads
• WIN324 – Design, Deploy, and Optimize SQL server
• Review resources
• Windows on AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/windows/
• Reach out to AWS or Partner for assistance if necessary

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38. Thank you!
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Lou De La Torre
LouDeLaT@amazon.com
Siavash Irani
siavashi@amazon.com
Purvi Goyal
goyapurv@amazon.com

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