Category: AWS

You have resources you can throw away (stateless) and resources you can’t throw away (state-full). Donald Knuth said it beautifully: there is nothing you can’t solve without an extra indirection. To achieve blue/green deployment on AWS, you put all your resources that can die and revive (think auto scaling groups, malicious terminations, but also whole Read More …

Packaging the application is really not harder than calling : msbuild <pathtoprojectfile>  /t:Package /p:DeployIisAppPath=”Default Web Site” But there is more…   Through configuration files in a subdirectory .ebextensions (at the level of web.config) you can add multiple .config files (in yaml format) that let you do all kinds of stuff, from running scripts, simple commands to downloading Read More …

AWS has a reputation of being “Microsoft” unfriendly, even arcane in general.  My impression is that this is certainly not true seeing the support they provide on the SDK level (.NET  NuGet packages), the possibility to host classic ASP.NET applications on Elastic Beanstalk (EB), publishing them from Visual Studio, even package and upload from your Read More …