AWS Database Blog
Author: Rita Ladda
Rita Ladda is Microsoft GTM Specialist Senior Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services with over 20 years of experience in many Microsoft Technologies. She specializes in designing database solutions in SQL Server and other databases. She provides architectural guidance to customers in migration and modernization of their Microsoft workloads to AWS.
Capture and diagnose I/O bottlenecks on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
In our previous post, Capture and tune resource utilization metrics for Amazon RDS for SQL Server,’ we demonstrated how to use Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring and Amazon RDS Performance Insights to diagnose and debug CPU utilization bottlenecks for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server. Aside from CPU and memory, I/O performance is critical for overall database performance. It’s important to understand the I/O requirements of a SQL Server workload, which is dependent on various factors like query access patterns, database schema, and state of database maintenance. Understanding your workload’s, I/O patterns can guide you in selecting the optimal storage type for your RDS instance, balancing performance needs with cost-effectiveness. In this post, we demonstrate how you can use Amazon RDS monitoring tools along with SQL Server monitoring capabilities to capture, diagnose, and resolve I/O issues on an RDS for SQL Server instance.
Join SQL Server on AWS to Microsoft Entra Domain Services
Windows Authentication offers a secure and efficient mechanism for authentication management in Microsoft SQL Server. Many customers use Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure AD) as their identity provider for Windows authentication. With the launch of support to join Amazon RDS for SQL Server to self-managed Active Directory, you can now join your Amazon Relational Database […]