SQL Server on Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud vs Relational Database Service SQL Server on Amazon Web Services

Rick Lowe rick@data-flowe.com DataFLowe http://dataflowe.wordpress.com/

What’s Not Covered Virtual Private Cloud – routing, VPN, gateways etc Glacier Storage Details – for stuff you probably don’t need Identity and Access Management – Permissions for ops Active Directory on AWS – For using Windows auth Instance Roles – Grant permissions to servers

Background Information

Background – Elastic Block Storage Mounted like a hard drive Random access Defaults to SSD, options for magnetic Provisioned IOPs (pay for performance)

Background – Simple Storage Service Sequential access Access with CLI or PowerShell Analogous to tape Glacier option for long term storage

Background – Security Groups Simple firewall Control traffic by port and/or IP Almost no support for DNS-based rules Routing configured separately

Background - Cost Runtime costs accrue when running Runtime cost may include MSSQL Storage costs accrue whether running or not Data transfer out of AWS, or between regions Many many other costs possible

EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud

EC2 Overview Infrastructure as a Service Interact with by Remote Desktop Virtual server on shared hardware Full OS control (and responsibility) Full instance control (and responsibility)

EC2 Advantages Multiple drives More configuration options All SQL Server features (SSIS, SSRS, MDS, etc.)

What We Saw In Demo Spin up instance Select correct region Select image, instance type, VPC etc etc Configure storage, security group, network, etc … Plus all OS and MSSQL config If a disk is missing, bring online in Computer Management Pro tip – Consider assigning an instance role

RDS – Relational Database Service

RDS Overview Platform as a Service Interact with by SSMS No access to OS Can adjust many instance settings

RDS Advantages Automated backups of instance Built in redundancy / disaster recovery Automated OS patching Simplified MSSQL patching

RDS Demo – What We Saw Options and parameter sets help configure … Especially S3 bucket for native backups RDS instance backups are easy Native backups can be challenging Not all native backups can be restored

RDS and EC2 Considerations Some features (SSIS, SSRS, etc) currently require EC2 Workloads sensitive to settings (or tuning) may require EC2 Less to worry about in RDS Common interface across engines in RDS For many workloads, matter of preference RDS only supports 1 disk

Demo from session https://tinyurl.com/dfl-yyj-dem

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