Author: Mesgana Gormley

Amazon RDS for SQL Server recently launched Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), so you can use your existing SQL Server licenses with fully managed RDS instances. This is particularly valuable if you have existing Microsoft licensing agreements and want to optimize your cloud spending by using those investments on AWS. If you’re already running RDS for SQL Server with the license-included (LI) model, you can now convert those instances to BYOM in place, no database migration required. In this post, we walk you through the end-to-end conversion process: preparing your installation media, creating a BYOM engine version, and performing the in-place license model change.

Customers in industries such as healthcare and financial services take full advantage of the built-in security features of SQL Server to meet their regulatory and compliance requirements. When migrating their database to the AWS Cloud, we often see customers asking for SQL Server security feature support such as TDE, column-level encryption on Amazon Relational Database […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is a managed database service that automates the setup, operation, and scaling of databases in the cloud while granting you access to the underlying operating system and database environment. You can provision a Multi-AZ Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server instance for a highly available environment with automatic […]

A relational database is like a multitool: it can do many things, but it’s not perfectly suited to all tasks. For example, suppose a police department has been using a relational database to perform crime data analysis. As their breadth of sources and volume of data grows, they start to experience performance issues in querying […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports managed disaster recovery (DR) using Amazon RDS cross-Region automated backups. This feature extends the existing Amazon RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to set up automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary Region. The […]