Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Vishal Singh

Author: Vishal Singh

Vishal is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where he collaborates with APJ startup customers, assisting them in migrating, modernizing, and optimizing their workloads for the AWS cloud. He specializes in Amazon Relational Database, Amazon QuickSight, Amazon EC2 Windows, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon SageMaker. Outside of work, Vishal finds joy in creating rock music and performing with his band in live shows with his Guitar.

Optimizing large-scale migration of SQL Server databases to Amazon EC2 using backup metadata

In this blog post, we explore how the Microsoft SQL Server backup metadata, known as backup headers, can be leveraged when migrating from on premises to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This technique is particularly useful when access to source database information is non-existent or only backup files are available with no access to […]