Deploy .NET to AWS

Full Title

Deploying a ASP.NET core website to Amazon Web Services

Context

• Bring up a secure web site deployment with a minimum of fuss.
• At first the challenge is getting the Web Site working well.
• The assumption here is that the design is not fully fleshed out as the User Experience needs to be functional before it can be fully evaluated.
• Later the problem is to get the performance to be good while the deployment expands to multiple instances.

Problems

• The largest part of the problem is not getting the web site to run, but rather to ensure that it is secure using SSL certificates and HTTPS.

Solutions

• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) was selected as the resource for its ease of deployment and expansion to handle volume.
• Elastic Beanstalk (EB) automates some of the deployment and expansion services for EC2.

Debugging

• Windows Remote Desktop was enabled to see what the EC2 instance really looked like. (An instance is one server running the site.)