Why choose AWS for Microsoft workloads?
AWS has been helping customers migrate and modernize their Microsoft workloads for over 14 years and has the broadest portfolio of services, programs, and expertise to accelerate the transformation of key applications that power businesses. If you use AWS to migrate and modernize, you can look forward to the following benefits:
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Unlock innovation – Moving from a traditional monolithic architecture to a cloud-based microservices architecture can give you the freedom to adapt and experiment quickly so that your organization can unlock innovation faster. AWS has the broadest set of container technologies, including Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and AWS Fargate. Additionally, AWS has the most mature serverless offering (AWS Lambda), deeply integrated .NET support, DevOps utilities to automate development cycles, several open-source integrations, and purpose-built databases such as Amazon Aurora to power modern architectures.
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Reduce costs – You can avoid paying for expensive Windows or SQL Server licensing by moving to open-source database solutions. For example, Aurora provides the same functionality as commercial databases at one-tenth the cost. If you move to DevOps and use containers and serverless solutions, you can reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) and maximize compute consumption.
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Improve security – AWS offers 230 security, compliance, and governance services and key features—five times more services than the next largest cloud provider. You can use AWS Directory Service
, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, to improve your cloud security and eliminate the need to synchronize or replicate data from your existing Active Directory during migrations. You can also use AWS identity services to manage identities and permissions at scale, while providing flexible options for where and how you manage your employee, partner, and customer information. -
Develop skills with trusted experts – AWS has unmatched experience helping millions of organizations reach their migration goals faster through unique tools and services. The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows
provides best practices, tools, and incentives to reduce the complexity and cost of migrating to the cloud with support from AWS Partners and AWS Professional Services. 90 percent of Fortune 100 companies and the majority of Fortune 500 companies use AWS Partner solutions and services. -
Improve the price and performance of your processing power – AWS is a leader in processing innovation, offering Graviton2-based instances that are 20 percent less expensive per hour than Intel x86-based instances, with up to 40 percent better performance. Aurora also brings five times the throughput of standard MySQL and three times the throughput of standard PostgreSQL. This performance is on par with commercial databases, at one-tenth the cost.
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Take advantage of flexible licensing options – AWS offers the most options in the cloud for using new and existing Microsoft software licenses on AWS. If you purchase license-included Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances, you get new, fully compliant SQL Server licenses from AWS. You can bring your existing licenses to AWS with Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
, Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances , or EC2 instances with default tenancy by using Microsoft License Mobility through Software Assurance . AWS License Manager makes it easier to track the usage of software licenses and reduce the risk of non-compliance.
For more information, see Windows on AWS
