Amazon Web Services RDS with SQL Server
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Overview What is RDS? What is required to get started? Create an RDS instance Querying the instance Compatibility issues Automation with CloudFormation
What is RDS Relational Database Services A web service to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud Not just SQL Server PostgreSQL Oracle MySQL Comes in 2 flavours Regular Aurora Manages all administration tasks Restrictive access
What is required to get started? Create an AWS account https://aws.amazon.com/ Select your instance type SQL Server 2008 R2 to 2016 Includes Express, Web, Standard, or Enterprise Production or not Make a DB instance name, master user, and password Specify virtual private cloud and security groups Specify backup retention period
DEMO Create an RDS instance Query the instance Compatibility issues
Automation With CloudFormation CloudFormation uses templates to automatically create an AWS instance Templates can be made in JSON or YAML
DEMO Launch RDS instance using CloudFormation
Credits What is Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html Creating a Microsoft SQL Server DB Instance and Connecting to a Database on a Microsoft SQL Server DB Instance - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_Getting Started.CreatingConnecting.SQLServer.html AWS::RDS::DBInstance - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws- properties-rds-database-instance.html What is AWS CloudFormation? - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/Welc ome.html
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