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Author: Vikas Babu Gali
Vikas Babu Gali is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, at Amazon Web Services, specializing in SQL Server migration, modernization and cloud database transformation. Vikas has guided many of Fortune 500 customers through mission-critical cloud transformations at scale.
Configure password policy for Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports configuring password policies for logins using SQL Server Authentication. In this post, we guide you through the process of enabling the password policy for Amazon RDS for SQL Server and creating a SQL Server login that adheres to the policy.
Manage Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server CEV AMIs using EC2 Image Builder
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server allows you to use a custom engine version (CEV) by providing an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), which includes specific customizations and database media installed on it. In this post we provide you guidance and best practices to build, test, and distribute AMIs using an EC2 Image Builder pipeline.
Audit Amazon RDS for SQL Server using database activity streams
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports database activity streams to provide a near-real-time stream of database activities in your relational database. To protect your database from internal and external threats, and to meet compliance and regulatory requirements, you can easily integrate the database activity stream with third-party database activity monitoring […]
Create a heterogeneous linked server from Amazon RDS for SQL Server to an Oracle database
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the Oracle database engine as an external data source to implement heterogeneous linked server configuration and run distributed queries. With this feature, you can now create a linked server configuration between Amazon RDS for SQL Server and an Oracle database instance running in your […]