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Containers

Containerizing Windows workloads represents a significant opportunity to optimize infrastructure costs and improve operational efficiency. AWS provides comprehensive tools and services to support this transformation, such as advanced optimization tools like AWS Compute Optimizer for Fargate tasks and Kubecost for EKS environments. By leveraging these solutions along with modern scaling strategies like Karpenter, organizations can reduce their Windows Server footprint while gaining the benefits of containerized deployments, including improved resource utilization and automated scaling.

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Containers can help optimize the infrastructure and also promote agility for your workloads. If compatible, applications that require components from the Windows OS may leverage the infrastructure modernization of running on Windows containers.