Microsoft Workloads on AWS
Tag: SQL Server on EC2
What’s new in SQL Server 2022 on AWS?
Customers running SQL Server on AWS have enjoyed running their workloads with higher reliability and performance, lowered total cost of ownership (TCO), flexible licensing options, and using the broad and deep capabilities of AWS, all while leveraging greater security and identity services. Microsoft released SQL Server 2022 for general availability (GA) on November 16th 2022, […]
Reduce failover times for SQL Server on Amazon EC2 instance using Network Load Balancer
This blog post will show you how to use AWS’ Network Load Balancer (NLB) to reduce outage time for legacy clients in response to a SQL Server Always On availability group failover A popular option to achieve SQL Server high availability (HA) is to implement SQL Server multi-subnet clustering for Always-On availability groups (AO-AG) across […]
Join AWS at PASS Data Community Summit 2022
Join us at the PASS Data Community Summit 2022 in Seattle November 14 to 18, and we’ll show you how to accelerate the migration and modernization of your SQL Server workloads.
Top 10 recommendations to optimize costs with your SQL Server workloads on AWS
The high cost of Microsoft licenses for SQL Server, especially SQL Server Enterprise edition, is a point of concern for many customers planning their migration of SQL Server workloads to AWS. In this blog post, I will discuss 10 things you can do to save money with your SQL Server workloads on AWS. You have […]
How to set up disaster recovery for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Traditional disaster recovery methods for Microsoft SQL Server require duplication of infrastructure, operating systems, licensing and other third-party applications, rendering it a highly expensive IT project – even prohibitively expensive for some organizations. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) provides organizations with a more modern approach to protecting Microsoft SQL Server environments: cloud-based disaster recovery […]
Deploying SQL Server Always Encrypted with secure enclaves on Amazon EC2 instances
Always Encrypted with secure enclaves is an encryption technology available in SQL Server 2019, which allows rich computations on encrypted data. With increased focus on data protection, this feature helps customers to protect sensitive data, such as credit card numbers or national identification numbers (for example, U.S. social security numbers) stored in SQL Server databases. […]