Category: RDS for SQL Server

In Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server, database visibility is configured using a dedicated stored procedure. In this post, we demonstrate tenant isolation at the visibility level, preventing tenants from seeing database names belonging to other customers while maintaining their access to their own resources. This solution addresses an important architectural consideration in multi-tenant SQL Server environments where database names might reveal tenant information. By using the Amazon RDS for SQL Server custom stored procedure msdb.dbo.rds_manage_view_db_permission, users can effectively control database visibility on a per-login basis while maintaining full application functionality.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now offers the Optimize CPU feature, which enabled control over vCPU allocation through core count modification setting. SQL Server licensing costs can consume a significant portion of your database budget, especially when you’re paying for vCPUs that aren’t fully utilized. This post demonstrates how to implement the Optimize CPU feature to potentially reduce licensing costs while maintaining performance for both new and existing Amazon RDS instances, along with performance benchmarking results and cost implications.

In this post, we show you how to create and deploy SQL Server Developer Edition on Amazon RDS.

With the introduction of the additional storage volume feature, you can now attach up to three additional storage volumes to your Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances. By using this feature, you can distribute your data and log files across multiple volumes. This enhancement offers more granular control over storage configuration and performance optimization. In this post, you will learn about the following scenarios: Adding a new storage volume, Scaling an existing storage volume, Restoring a database on an additional storage volume, and Deleting a storage volume.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the Optimize CPU feature. With the Optimize CPU feature you can define the number of vCPUs when you launch new instances or when modifying existing database instances. This feature also provides a detailed billing breakdown of RDS infrastructure costs, and licensing costs for SQL Server and Windows OS. It is available starting from the 7th Generation instance class. In this post, we explore how to use the Optimize CPU feature with Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

You can now use resource governor with Amazon RDS for SQL Server to optimize your database performance by controlling how compute resources are allocated across different workloads. This post shows you how to optimize your database performance using resource governor on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. We walk you through the step-by-step process of enabling and configuring the feature, including how to set up resource pools, create workload groups, and implement classifier functions for effective resource management.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server has enhanced SQL Server 2022 Web Edition by introducing high availability through block-level replication in Multi-AZ deployments. With this release, you can quickly set up and maintain highly available databases while significantly reducing operational overhead. In this post, we discuss the benefits of block-level replication and how to get started. For more information, see Licensing Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS.

Omnissa is a digital workspace technology leader that delivers smart, seamless, and secure digital work experiences for organizations worldwide. It serves 26,000 customers, including the top seven of the Fortune 500 companies. In this post, we walk through the Omnissa’s journey of migrating its mission-critical UEM platform and self-managed SQL Server workloads from VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC-A) to Amazon RDS for SQL Server and its application servers to Amazon EC2.

In this post, we demonstrate how to build an efficient, serverless monitoring system for Amazon RDS for SQL Server using AWS native services and Slack integration.

AWS Backup supports the creation of on-demand backups of RDS Custom for SQL Server instances. However, the restoration of RDS Custom for SQL Server instances through AWS Backup is not natively supported at the time of writing this post. Nonetheless, this post presents a workaround solution that enables the successful restoration of RDS Custom for SQL Server instances using AWS Backup-created backups.