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We have an ASP.NET application that runs locally on Windows PCs. We have the following requirement:
During an event, our application will send an email to a recipient with an Approval link.
Recipient can either approve or decline the request.
Based on the approval or decline state, our desktop app should trigger an event to change a state.
I'm not familiar with cloud services. I would like to know whether any public cloud service providers like AWS or Azure offer any cloud service to support such scenarios.
Note: We already have a provision to send email from our application. We are using MailKit.
Can you clarify? You have one internal ASP.NET application running on a local web server with multiple browser clients? There is also a desktop applications installed on many client PCs? The cloud service receives the recipient's approve or decline? The desktop applications must detect the approve or decline action? What is the relationship between the ASP.NET application and the desktop application?
You have one internal ASP.NET application running on a local web server with multiple browser clients?
-> Yes. Application will be installed in one local web server and can be accessed through browser from different PCs within the network.
Technically I need to implement the following:
1) Generate approve/decline links that need to be sent via email to others.
2) People outside our network can click the approve/decline links they received via email.
3) People's response (either approve/decline) should be available/stored somewhere in the cloud.
4) Our ASP.net app running in local web server should poll the cloud service/database to know whether any response is received for the approval/decline generated in step 1.
5) Take action based on the response received.
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any website technology with a persistent store would work. the links in email are to the cloud hosted website. it would also have a api called by on premise server.
if you want to stick to asp.net both AWS or Azure support it. you might also be interested in Azure functions or AWS lambdas.
I'm leaning towards a simple cloud hosted solution instead of running another cloud hosted asp.net application to handle this simple task.
I'll look into Azure Functions or AWS Lambdas. From what I read online, Azure Functions doesn't have any storage associated with it.
So, here's how I look at it, please correct me If I'm wrong.
either AWS lambda or azure function can access a cloud database or simple indexed storage.
if all you have is an id, then json storage is easiest and cheapest. if azure you can also use serverless sql databases.