Why AWS is a good choice for your .NET application
Say you’re planning a new .NET application and deciding on a cloud platform, obviously it would make sense to go for Azure because they are both Microsoft products. However, perhaps surprisingly, .NET is also a first-class citizen on AWS. After developing .NET applications on AWS for several years now I would like to share why I would recommend AWS as a solid cloud platform choice for .NET applications.
AWS Lambda is the main serverless component of AWS. It is the AWS counterpart of Azure Functions. To oversimplify it, you use it to run code in the cloud without worrying about what it runs on. Additionally, it is pay-per-use and has a very generous monthly free-tier. During months of development and testing with a full development team we weren’t charged a single penny. So definitely don’t be afraid to give it a try.
There are many use cases for a serverless component such as Lambda, but perhaps the most common one is processing events or data. It can subscribe to events from message queues, file storages, databases etc. Or you can just manually feed it some data to process. All of this can be done with C#/.NET code which is great, but nothing new compared to Azure Functions though right? The real power lies in Lambda’s support for ASP.NET Core.
