Running Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Introduction

• Windows workloads running on AWS?

1. An Introduction to the Management Tools

• The AWS console
• Create a service account
• Install the AWS CLI
• Accessing AWS through PowerShell

2. AWS Virtual Networking

• Creating a VPC
• Defining subnets
• Creating an internet gateway
• Modify the routing table
• Creating elastic IPs

3. Running Windows on a Cloud VM

• Create a key pair
• Create a security group
• Create an EC2 instance
• Assign an elastic IP to an instance
• Tag your instance
• Name an instance
• Change an instance state
• Configure termination protection

4. Manage a Windows Instance

• Retrieve an instance password
• Connect to an instance with RDP
• Share local resources with the instance
• Check an instance's performance
• Resize an instance
• Create a new storage volume
• Attach a storage volume
• Attach a new network interface
• Create and restore instance snapshots

5. Managed Active Directory

• Create a managed AD forest
• Create a domain joined instance
• Manually join a cloud Active Directory
• Log into the cloud AD environment
• Install AD Management Tools
• Create cloud AD users and groups

6. FSx File Servers

• Create an FSx Windows file server
• Attaching to an SMB file share
• Configuring file share permissions

7. Application Deployment

• Copy application binaries to an instance
• Using an application ISO file
• Install applications from a physical DVD
• Using the AMI catalog
• Using the AWS Marketplace

Conclusion

• Next steps