Category: RDS for SQL Server

Many applications, including those built on modern serverless architectures, can have a large number of open connections to the database server and may open and close database connections at a high rate, exhausting database memory and compute resources. Databases can also suffer from transient failures, impacting application availability. Finally, applications need to maintain database credentials to […]

Customers running their business-critical workloads on SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase ASE) databases can modernize them by migrating to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server and be able to keep Transact-SQL (T-SQL) as their preferred database programming language and Tabular Data Stream (TDS) as their communication protocol, which accelerates the migration and […]

December 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Customers choose Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server because it manages time-consuming database administration tasks including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and hardware scaling. With Amazon RDS for SQL Server, you can enable single-click high availability by enabling the Multi-AZ flag in […]

Customers running end of support (EOS) Microsoft SQL Server workloads on premises often ask us how they can confidently migrate those workloads to AWS fully managed database services like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployment […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the direct migration of transparent database encryption (TDE)-enabled databases by using the native backup and restore feature. Previously, to migrate a TDE-enabled database from on premises to Amazon RDS for SQL Server, you had to disable the TDE at your on-premises (source) database and […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Enterprises are migrating their Microsoft SQL Server workloads to AWS fully managed database services like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server, which makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployment in the cloud. There are a few native Microsoft SQL Server […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system (OS) and database (DB) environment. Amazon RDS Custom is now available for the SQL Server database engine. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server automates setup, operation, […]

Customers running their workload on SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase ASE) databases often ask us how they can modernize their workload as they move to AWS with minimum application changes. Customers who want to keep Transact-SQL (T-SQL) as their preferred database programming language and Tabular Data Stream (TDS) as their communication protocol can take advantage […]

Enterprises are migrating their Microsoft SQL Server workloads to AWS fully managed database services like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server, which makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployment in the cloud. AWS provides guidance on migrating from an on-premises SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server supports Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to encrypt stored data on your DB instances running Microsoft SQL Server. TDE automatically encrypts data before it’s written to storage, and decrypts data when the data is read from storage. TDE certificates expire depending on when the certificate is generated […]