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Alan Cranfield

Author: Alan Cranfield

Alan Cranfield is a Database Engineer in EC2 with over 25 years of experience optimizing SQL Server workloads across cloud and on-premises mission-critical environments. His expertise spans industries such as banking, gaming, stock trading, and enterprise IT, focusing on infrastructure specification, high availability and performance. At AWS, Alan collaborates with internal service teams, authors technical content, and consults with customers to address complex database challenges. Alan is dedicated to helping organizations leverage AWS to achieve exceptional performance and scalability for their SQL Server workloads.

SQL Server Performance Benchmarking on AWS

With so many instance types to choose from, it can be challenging for architects and customers to choose the best ones to migrate their SQL Server workloads to AWS. Detailed specifications are available for each instance type and storage options, however all of this information may be difficult to map to real-world scenarios. We are […]