Author name: Kirk Davis

I am a long-time techie based in the Pacific Northwest. I've been a v- employee at Microsoft (i.e., contractor/vendor) where I first started building on .NET in 2001, and spent almost 9 years at AWS, where I was a Principal Solutions Architect on the Microsoft platform team. I'm now the Director of Cloud Services at Evolve, helping customers modernize off of Windows and SQL Server. The one constant throughout is that I love traveling, learning new tech, and meeting new people.

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AWS, Modernization, SQL Server

From Amazon Aurora to Dev Laptops: Babelfish for Local Development

Background When a large consulting customer decided to modernize the database tier of their flagship platform, the scope was ambitious: migrate more than 20 production databases from RDS SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with Babelfish. The goal was to dramatically reduce costs and support the customer’s ongoing effort to achieve FedRAMP compliance. Evolve Cloud Services led […]

AWS, Microsoft Licensing, Modernization

Evolve Launches AWS-Funded Application Modernization Assessment (AMA)

📰From Portfolio to Plan in Weeks: Evolve Launches AWS-Funded Application Modernization Assessment (AMA) MESA, AZ — April 2026 — Evolve Cloud Services, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with deep expertise in Microsoft workload optimization and modernization, today announced the availability of its Application Modernization Assessment (AMA) offering—an AWS-funded, no-cost engagement designed to help organizations

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AWS, Modernization, Uncategorized

Modernizing ASP.NET MVC to .NET 8 with Amazon Q Developer

A Brief History of Porting .NET Framework to modern .NET Pre-generative-AI tools and librariesModernizing legacy .NET Framework applications to modern, cross-platform versions of .NET (aka .NET Core) has been a laborious process that has gotten easier as tools and libraries have launched over the past half-decade. AWS launched their Porting Assistant for .NET  in 2020,

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