In October I presented at AWS CloudDay Athens 2023 where I talked about migrating and modernizing Microsoft workloads on AWS. It was my first time speaking in Athens and I was glad to have the opportunity to visit such an amazing city.
Together with my co-speaker Pavlos Kaimakis, we delivered session MIC207 covering the different strategies organizations can take to move their Windows applications and SQL Server databases to the cloud. We walked through the three main approaches – rehost, replatform and refactor – and how each one maps to specific AWS services. On the rehost side, we covered migrating self-managed applications to Amazon EC2 Windows with no code changes. For replatforming, we talked about containerizing workloads with Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate and Amazon EKS, as well as moving SQL Server databases to Amazon RDS for SQL Server. On the refactor side, we discussed porting .NET applications to .NET Core on Linux with AWS Lambda, and migrating to cloud-native databases like Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Neptune and Amazon Redshift.
Another interesting session was “Migrating to the cloud: What is the cost of doing nothing?” where our very own Cosmin Pascu (Enterprise SA, AWS) was on stage with our client Raiffeisen Bank Romania’s Alex Glod (Cloud Competence Leader) and Adrian Voicu (Head of Technology Platform).
It was great to see so many people interested in the Microsoft on AWS topic and to connect with the local tech community in Greece!
My slides covering the presentation can be found here.