About Technical Notes for Microsoft Workloads on AWS

This site is built for professionals who architect, deploy, and optimize Microsoft workloads in the AWS cloud. Here, seasoned AWS Solutions architects and experts share the architectures, guides, lessons learned, and insights they develop daily while helping customers build, migrate and modernize Microsoft technologies—such as Windows Server, SQL Server, Active Directory, .NET, and more—on AWS.

Dive into a curated library of real-world architectures and deployment patterns that address common challenges and showcase innovative solutions. Whether you’re migrating your legacy Windows applications, modernizing your infrastructure, or simply looking for guidance leveraging advanced AWS services for your Microsoft applications, you’ll find actionable guidance, proven best practices, and expert opinion grounded in hands-on experience.

Discover step-by-step guides for seamless migrations, performance tuning, security, and cost optimization strategies for Microsoft workloads on AWS. Explore detailed case studies that highlight successful customer outcomes, and gain valuable perspectives from AWS Solutions Architects and experts builders who regularly help customers navigate complex hybrid and multicloud implemenmtations.

Whether you’re a cloud architect, system administrator, developer, or IT leader, this platform is your go-to resource for mastering Microsoft workloads' deployment on AWS.

This site is organized into six Microsoft technology domains:

.NET
Active Directory
Windows Containers
SQL Server
EC2 Windows
Licensing