Chapter 7. Migrating your Data and Deploying your Code
Well, here we are, finally at the chapter where we will be deploying our sample application up to AWS! In this chapter, we depart from AWS just a little and—just for one chapter—focus on the steps required to make our sample .Net application work. We have spent quite a bit of time so far looking at all of the options that AWS offers; now, in this chapter, we will look in detail at the steps required to deploy our sample application Waaah (Widgets are always available here).
Just to recap: Waaah is a Microsoft Model View Controller (MVC) 3.0 application, developed with .Net 4.0 and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express. It is a basic web application that allows login/logoff, and subscribe/unsubscribe to a list of services supplied by the Widget Company. The database is a SQL Server database, and the application relies on Forms Security for authentication. Our application comprises three parts, the web application itself, which runs on the...