Running Windows Containers on AWS

A complete guide to successfully running Windows containers on Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate

Marcio Morales

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

Running Windows Containers on AWS

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To my sons, Christian and Matheus, for showing me how talent and creativity evolve. To my wife, Amanda, for being my loving partner throughout our joint life journey.

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Contributors

About the author

Marcio Morales is a principal specialist solution architect at AWS, focusing on container services such as Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate, helping customers modernize legacy infrastructure to modern cloud-native solutions. Before this, Marcio spent his entire career as a Microsoft consultant, implementing and migrating solutions such as Active Directory, Exchange Server, Hyper-V, System Center, and Azure. Additionally, during the night shifts, Marcio worked for 8 years as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), teaching more than 2,000 individuals with official Microsoft Official Courseware (MOC) on various topics.

Marcio holds more than 30 certifications, including Microsoft, AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes certifications. He also has a bachelor’s degree in computer networking and an MBA in network architecture and cloud computing.

I want to thank the people who have been close to me and supported me, especially my wife, Amanda, and my parents.

About the reviewer

Joshua Brewer is currently a cloud support engineer at Amazon Web Services. Before joining AWS, he was an active-duty member of the United States Air Force, where he specialized in virtual desktop infrastructure. He has more than five years of virtualization/containerization experience. He gained an MSc in cloud computing architecture from the University of Maryland Global Campus. Josh is responsible for helping enterprise organizations successfully implement containerized workloads in AWS.

I am grateful for what I get to do on a daily basis. Since I first got my feet wet in the tech industry after joining the military, I have been on a constant journey where I have had to learn, adapt, and repeat. I am thankful for all the individuals who have aided my development during this journey. I am also extremely thankful for my family, who have supported me every step of the way.