Document history - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Document history

The following table describes significant changes to this guide. If you want to be notified about future updates, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Corrected information

Corrected the information about the cost threshold of parallelism property. Its value is measured by units of cost, not time.

December 4, 2023

Updated guidance

Updated the sections on setting the NTFS allocation unit size, locking pages in memory, using task offload features, using striping, changing the cost threshold of parallelism, using trace flags, and using database autogrowth settings.

August 8, 2023

Added guidance

Added information about using Network Load Balancer for legacy applications that can’t use the MultiSubnetFailover parameter.

November 11, 2022

Fixed code

Corrected the PowerShell code in the section on initializing the instance store.

June 27, 2022

Added new section

Added information about AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server.

August 18, 2021

Initial publication

July 21, 2020