Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Blake Lyles

Author: Blake Lyles

Blake Lyles is a Microsoft Workloads Specialist Solutions Architect with a special focus on SQL Server. Blake has been at Amazon for over 6 years, spending most of that time working with database workloads, including, SQL Server on EC2, supporting RDS, Database Migration Service, and Amazon DocumentDB. Blake has helped customers migrate and modernize their database workloads on AWS.

Reduce Microsoft SQL Server licensing costs with AWS Compute Optimizer

In this blog post, we explore a new capability of AWS Compute Optimizer that generates Microsoft SQL Server licensing recommendations. AWS Compute Optimizer has the capability to provide customers running Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with licensing cost optimization recommendations, which can, result in significant SQL Server licensing cost savings. […]