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In the realm of cloud infrastructure, have you been assigned the responsibility of tracking licenses for all Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances derived from your custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), such as Microsoft Windows Server or SQL Server? If your goal is to oversee and enforce license usage across various accounts from a centralized hub, then this solution is tailored for you.

Accelerate Remote Desktop Gateway Deployments

In this section, we will explore how to effortlessly deploy a secure infrastructure for managing your Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows Server. Utilizing the automation capabilities of AWS Launch Wizard, you can streamline the sizing, configuring, and deploying of AWS resources efficiently.

Monitoring Microsoft SharePoint Server

Next, we delve into configuring Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights for a Microsoft SharePoint farm. Effective management and governance are critical for any workload, whether hosted on-premises or in the AWS Cloud. Proper oversight ensures that your operations run smoothly and efficiently.

Generating TLS Certificates for Remote Desktop Gateway Farms

This segment focuses on creating, importing, testing, and troubleshooting Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates for a Remote Desktop Gateway farm. The secure management of your Amazon EC2 instances for Microsoft Windows Server is a priority that cannot be overlooked.

Securing API Authorization with Microsoft Entra ID

We will guide you through the steps of setting up an AWS Lambda authorizer with Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure Active Directory) utilizing OpenID Connect. This integration allows you to use the authentication from Entra ID as an identity provider for your Amazon API Gateway, thus enhancing your API security.

Accelerating Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Here, we present a solution and guidelines on how to minimize both the cost and time involved in having a Microsoft Windows Server instance join an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group by up to 78%. Customers often seek quicker scale-out times to meet their operational demands.

Viewing Azure Costs through Amazon QuickSight

Introducing the Cloud Intelligence Dashboard for Azure, this tool allows you to improve your cloud cost monitoring by integrating Microsoft Azure usage data with Amazon QuickSight.

Automating Microsoft Windows Server Upgrades

In the concluding part of this series, we will discuss how to automate your upgrades for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 using AWS Systems Manager. This is essential as we approach the end-of-support event in October, which presents challenges for many organizations. For further insights on confronting workplace challenges, check out this blog post.

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