Running Managed SQL Server on AWS

Explore the benefits of running Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) in this 56-minute conference talk from PASS Data Community Summit. Discover how RDS automates database administration tasks, offers high availability, and provides performance monitoring for SQL Server workloads. Learn about key features that simplify cloud deployment and operation, including automated backups, manual snapshots, native backups, and high availability options. Compare fully managed RDS deployments with self-managed SQL Server on Amazon EC2. Gain insights into performance optimization, compute instance types, storage options, and Active Directory integration. Examine new features like SQL Server Analysis Services and replication service master key management. Understand how to leverage CloudWatch metrics and enhanced monitoring for effective database management in the AWS cloud environment.

Introduction
Eugenes background
Session evaluations
Agenda
What is RDS
Running SQL Server on AWS
Managed Experience
Backup
Manual Snapshot
Native Backups
High Availability
failover times
readscaleout
compute and storage scaling
performance insights
compute instance types
EBS
General Purpose
Provision IOPS
Recap
Active Directory Integration
Performance Monitoring
CloudWatch Metrics
Enhanced Monitoring
Moving Data
New Features
SQL Server Analysis Services
Replication Service Master Key