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By Avinash Upadhyaya, Sr. Product Manager Technical According to a report published by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), 80% of remaining on-premises workloads across the globe will be cloud candidates over the next five years. As companies continue to move these critical applications to the cloud, they face the decision to continue using their existing vendor […]

Introduction: For customers who use SQL Server as their database engine of choice, SQL Server Developer is a great option for reducing the costs for running non-production workloads. Customers will often use SQL Server Developer for both their development and pre-production test environments. Deploying SQL Server Developer in AWS typically means logging into EC2 instances, […]

This post was contributed by Asif Fouzi, Sr. Solutions Architect, and Michael McGarvey, Sr. Service Delivery Manager, Amazon Managed Services. Many enterprises host mission-critical applications that run on Windows Server 2008R2 or older versions of Windows Server. Microsoft ended support for these older versions of SQL Server on January 14, 2020, including Windows Server 2008 […]

You’re convinced. Your business can’t adapt quickly enough to changing customer demands while running your infrastructure on-premises; it’s time to move to the cloud. To resist is like fighting gravity. But knowing this is not the same as doing it, and your teams are experts in building and running your Windows applications on-premises. The thought […]

Change can be hard. However, customers frequently tell me they find the greatest success modernizing their infrastructure when they embrace larger, transformative efforts, rather than small, incremental changes. Even though modernizing promises improved productivity and innovation, many customers aren’t sure how to start. In this blog I’ll walk through how Davinci accelerated their modernization efforts […]