Overview
Amazon EC2 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) provides a dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft SQL Server. By running RHEL with SQL Server on EC2, you can leverage the cost effectiveness, scalability and flexibility of Amazon EC2, the proven reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and AWS premium support with back-line support from Red Hat and Microsoft. The same core SQL Server code is used on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server through platform abstraction (SQLPAL). Amazon EC2 running RHEL with SQL Server provides seamless integration with existing Amazon EC2 features including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic-Load Balancing, and Elastic IPs.
Highlights
- Optimized performance tuning is simplified through the inclusion of Red Hat's latest mssql tuned performance profile
- Red Hat Insights includes rules for SQL Server based on Microsoft and Red Hat best practices and guidelines
- SQL Server includes support for graph databases, automatic database tuning, and R and Python analytics, among others.
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Type | Cost |
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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