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How TEKsystems Modernized a University’s Microsoft Workloads on AWS

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TEKsystems Global Services helped a university modernize its legacy .NET Framework applications and Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure on AWS, achieving significant improvements and cost savings:

  • Transformed a 785K line monolithic MVC application into microservices
  • Ported .NET Framework to .NET 8 on Linux-based environment
  • Migrated SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
  • Implemented cloud-native architecture using AWS services like ECS, ELB, and API Gateway
  • Achieved 30% licensing cost savings and 60% storage cost reduction

Key modernization tools used included CAST Highlight, AWS Microservices Extractor for .NET, Porting Assistant for .NET, and Babelfish Compass to facilitate the migration process.



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