Overview

Modernize your .NET workloads on AWS to reduce costs, take advantage of containers and serverless, and move to microservices and cloud-native architectures.

Modernize .NET workloads

Modernization involves replatforming or refactoring legacy enterprise applications by combining modern infrastructure, architecture, and organizational patterns.

Decision matrix

Use the decision matrix to determine the migration and modernization options for legacy .NET applications, based on your use case and resources.

Guide to Microsoft Workloads Modernization

For common approaches that you can use to modernize your Windows-based and .NET applications, see this guide.

Choosing an approach for modernizing .NET applications

This guide provides best practices for technical decision makers who want to understand the approaches for migrating their .NET legacy applications to AWS and modernizing them in the AWS Cloud.

Modernizing and Re-platforming .NET Applications

With the AWS Cloud increasing the speed of evolution, now is the perfect time to design or re-platform .NET applications to align with modern practices.

AWS modernization tools for Microsoft Workloads

If you are an architect or a developer exploring options to modernize your Microsoft workloads, see this guide.

Modernization workshop

For a hands-on workshop on modernizing a .NET 6 local web application and migrating it to AWS, review this asset.

Modernize .NET applications: Take a .NET Framework application to .NET.

For an end-to-end ASP.NET application modernization journey, see this hands-on workshop.

Security best practices for modernizing .NET applications

Here are some best practices for modernizing .NET Framework applications on AWS according to the security perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF).

Containerize and migrate .NET web applications

Migrate your .NET framework applications to Windows Containers, and then host them on AWS container services.

AWS App2Container

This tool automatically generates a container image configured with the correct dependencies, network configurations, and deployment instructions for Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS.

Accelerate containerization and migration of ASP.NET Core applications to AWS with AWS App2Container

For a tutorial on containerizing your .NET Core applications to Linux containers and migrating to AWS, see this guide.

Download AWS App2Container

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Modernize .NET applications with Linux containers

To modernize your .NET Framework applications by refactoring to the latest, cross-platform version of .NET and replatforming from Windows virtual machines to Linux containers, see this whitepaper.

Modernize with AWS App2Container Workshop

For a step-by-step process to modernize your Java and .NET applications with using AWS migration & modernization tools, see this workshop.

Port your .NET framework applications to modern .NET

Port your .NET Framework applications to modern .NET and save on licensing costs by running on Linux.

AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring

To refactor your legacy .NET applications to AWS, use the AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring. It provides a compatibility assessment report and helps port your code.

Porting Assistant for .NET tool

To get started with your porting efforts, use the Porting Assistant for .NET tool.

Accelerate .NET application modernization with Porting Assistant for .NET Visual Studio IDE

See this blog for a walkthrough o the capabilities of the Porting Assistant extension and how it extends the Visual Studio IDE to help developers streamline porting .NET Framework code to .NET core.

Refactor monolith apps to microservices

Refactor your old monolith apps to microservices-based architecture composed of small independent services.

AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET

Use AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET as an advisor to assess and visualize monolithic code and recommend microservice candidates, using AI and heuristics.

Monolithic to Microservice Journey for .NET Applications

To learn about considerations for refactoring a monolithic ASP.NET application into a microservice-based architecture, review this technical guide.

Extracting microservices from a monolithic ASP.NET Web Forms application

To learn how to use AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET to modernize your legacy ASP.NET Web Forms application, see this workshop.

Microservice Extractor For .NET

For a step-by-step process to extract an independent service from an ASP.NET MVC5 based monolithic application that uses Entity Framework 6.0, see this workshop.

Developing ASP.NET Core microservice on AWS

For a hands-on workshop on how to use the AWS SDK and Terraform to create and develop cloud native microservices on AWS, see this workshop.