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Alan Cranfield

Author: Alan Cranfield

Alan Cranfield is a Database Engineer in EC2 with over 25 years of experience optimizing SQL Server workloads across cloud and on-premises mission-critical environments. His expertise spans industries such as banking, gaming, stock trading, and enterprise IT, focusing on infrastructure specification, high availability and performance. At AWS, Alan collaborates with internal service teams, authors technical content, and consults with customers to address complex database challenges. Alan is dedicated to helping organizations leverage AWS to achieve exceptional performance and scalability for their SQL Server workloads.

Maximizing Microsoft SQL Server Performance with Amazon EBS

AWS customers have been running mission-critical Windows workloads, like SQL Server, on AWS for more than 10 years. In this post, I discuss how to maximize SQL Server performance with Amazon EBS storage. Persistent block storage is a critical component of a relational database management system (RDBMS) and is ultimately responsible for the speed, security, […]