SQL Server

Customers have been running Microsoft workloads on AWS for over 15 years, longer than any other cloud provider. This is largely because AWS has the most experience with Microsoft applications in the cloud and offers the best platform for Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server in the following areas:

• Higher performance and reliability

• Greater security and identity services

• More migration support

• The broadest and deepest capabilities

• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

• Flexible licensing options

AWS supports everything necessary to build and run Windows applications that rely on SQL Server, including Active Directory, .NET, SQL Server, Windows desktop as a service, and all supported versions of Windows Server. With proven expertise, AWS can help you easily lift and shift, refactor, or even modernize your Windows workloads.

This section of the guide covers the following topics:

• Choose a high availability and disaster recovery solution
• Understand SQL Server licensing
• Select the right EC2 instance for SQL Server workloads
• Consolidate instances
• Compare SQL Server editions
• Evaluate SQL Server Developer edition
• Evaluate SQL Server on Linux
• Optimize SQL Server backup strategies
• Modernize SQL Server databases
• Optimize storage for SQL Server
• Optimize SQL Server licensing by using Compute Optimizer
• Optimize SQL Server sizing by using Compute Optimizer
• Review Trusted Advisor recommendations for SQL Server workloads