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Category: Windows on AWS

Monitor deadlocks in SQL Server on Amazon EC2 and set notifications using Amazon CloudWatch

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Many of our customers running SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances want to capture specific events (systems and user-defined) for monitoring and troubleshooting issues with SQL Server. SQL Server logs these events in its error logs and agent logs. A deadlock is an […]

Configure a standalone SQL Server node as database availability replica of a SQL Server failover cluster instance

AWS provides three ways to create highly available SQL Server databases. Most customers use the single-click Multi-AZ Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server deployment. With Amazon RDS for SQL Server, you can enable the Multi-AZ option, which replicates data synchronously across different Availability Zones without the need to set up high availability […]

Architect a disaster recovery for SQL Server on AWS: Part 4

In this series of posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4) , we compare and contrast the disaster recovery (DR) solutions available for SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and help you understand the nature of these trade-offs, and the cost and complexity of implementing DR for SQL Server […]

Architect a disaster recovery for SQL Server on AWS: Part 3

In this series of posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4), we compare and contrast the disaster recovery (DR) solutions available for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and help you understand the nature of these trade-offs, and the cost and complexity of implementing DR for SQL Server […]

Architect a disaster recovery for SQL Server on AWS: Part 2

In this series of posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4), we compare and contrast the disaster recovery (DR) solutions available for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This post introduces three methods for implementing DR for SQL Server on AWS: SQL Server backup and restore, SQL Server […]

Architect a disaster recovery for SQL Server on AWS: Part 1

In today’s world, it’s just a matter of time before disaster happens, and when it happens it’s essential to recover your SQL Server databases and bring the systems online with minimal data loss and downtime. To respond to and recover from an outage of SQL Server database access, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) […]