1. Amazon Web Services RDS with SQL Server

2. Bio Christopher Wolff SQL Server DBA at Xero
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Over 16 years using SQL Server and other database technologies
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3. Overview What is RDS? What is required to get started?
Create an RDS instance
Querying the instance
Compatibility issues
Automation with CloudFormation

4. 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

5. What is required to get started?
Create an AWS account
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

6. DEMO
Create an RDS instance
Query the instance
Compatibility issues

7. Automation With CloudFormation
CloudFormation uses templates to automatically create an AWS instance
Templates can be made in JSON or YAML

8. DEMO
Launch RDS instance using CloudFormation

9. Credits
What is Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)? -
Creating a Microsoft SQL Server DB Instance and Connecting to a Database on a Microsoft SQL Server DB Instance - Started.CreatingConnecting.SQLServer.html
AWS::RDS::DBInstance - properties-rds-database-instance.html
What is AWS CloudFormation? - ome.html