Migrating IIS applications to Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides a streamlined migration path for your Windows applications running on Internet Information Services (IIS). The migration capability described in this chapter significantly reduces the time and complexity that’s typically associated with cloud migrations, helping you to maintain application functionality and configuration integrity during the transition to AWS.
The eb migrate operation
Use the eb migrate command in the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (EB CLI), to automatically discover, package, and deploy your IIS applications to the AWS Cloud. The process maintains application functionality and preserves your configurations, including bindings, application pools, and authentication settings.
The following steps summarize the process that the eb migrate operation
performs to transition your application to the AWS Cloud:
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Discover IIS sites and their configurations.
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Package application content and configuration.
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Create Elastic Beanstalk environment and application.
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Deploy the application with preserved settings.
Workflow and location execution options
The eb migrate command provides options for flexible migration workflows and execution
locations. By default, run the command on the target server that contains the application you want to migrate
to Elastic Beanstalk. If you can't run commands directly on the application server, use the remote option to run
the command from a bastion host that connects to the target server containing your application and configurations.
To complete the migration in two steps, you can also generate the migration package without deploying it
using the archive-only option and then deploy it later at your convenience using the archive option.
For reference information about the eb migrate command, see eb migrate.
Topics
The following topics provide detailed information about migrating IIS applications to Elastic Beanstalk:
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Prerequisites - Understand the required software, access, and permissions to migrate your Windows applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments.
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Migration glossary - Understand how IIS components map to Elastic Beanstalk resources
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Understanding IIS to Elastic Beanstalk migration mapping - Understand how IIS components map to Elastic Beanstalk resources
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Performing basic IIS migrations - Learn how to perform basic migrations
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Advanced migration scenarios - Handle complex migration scenarios
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Security configurations and IAM roles - Configure security settings during migration
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Network configuration and port settings - Manage network and port configurations
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Troubleshooting and diagnostics - Troubleshoot common migration issues
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Comparing migration options: EB CLI vs. AWS Application Migration Service - Compare two primary migration options.
