AWS Database Blog
Author: Stefan Minhas
Upgrade Your End of Support Microsoft 2008 R2 Workloads in AWS with Ease
Many IT organizations have run the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 database systems for over a decade. End-of-support (EOS) dates are fast approaching (July 2019 for SQL Server and January 2020 for Windows Server). Thus, it’s critical these systems get upgraded to a supported version […]
Bootstrapping Your Large Production On-Premises SQL Server Databases to Amazon EC2
This blog post explains how to use PowerShell and native Microsoft SQL Server backups to migrate an on-premises SQL Server database to an Amazon EC2 instance. In general, we recommend that where possible you should make every attempt to migrate your on-premises SQL Server databases to Amazon RDS. You can find more details on how […]