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...