SQL Server

Many customers ask for our advice on choosing the ‘best’ or the ‘right’ storage and instance configuration, but there is no one solution that fits all circumstances. This blog post covers the critical techniques to right-size your workloads. We focus on right-sizing a SQL Server as our example workload, but the techniques we will demonstrate apply equally to any Amazon EC2 instance running any operating system or workload. We create and use an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard to highlight any limits and bottlenecks within our example instance....

In this webinar we will learn and discuss different SQL deployments and why preferred option for high availability deployments has traditionally been difficult to deploy and manage. During the webinar, we will walk you through a Demo on how to deploy and configure Windows fail over cluster using Amazon FSx for windows to achieve a simple architecture and reduce operational overhead and licensing costs.

With Amazon FSx, you get fully managed shared file storage that automatically replicates the storage synchronously across two Availability Zones. Moreover, Amazon FSx provides high availability with automatic failure detection, failover, and failback. The service also fully supports the SMB Continuous Availability (CA) feature required to support SQL Server Always On FCI deployments. For those of you who chose to deploy SQL AG with Enterprise Edition licenses, to avoid the complexity and cost of using FCI with shared storage, now you can use Standard Edition licenses....