Category: Windows on AWS

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Many of our customers running SQL Server on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances want to capture specific events (systems and user-defined) for monitoring and troubleshooting issues with SQL Server. SQL Server logs these events in its error logs and agent logs. A deadlock is an […]

AWS provides three ways to create highly available SQL Server databases. Most customers use the single-click Multi-AZ HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) for SQL Server deployment. With HAQM RDS for SQL Server, you can enable the Multi-AZ option, which replicates data synchronously across different Availability Zones without the need to set up high availability […]

In this series of posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4) , we compare and contrast the disaster recovery (DR) solutions available for SQL Server on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) and help you understand the nature of these trade-offs, and the cost and complexity of implementing DR for SQL Server […]

In this series of posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4), we compare and contrast the disaster recovery (DR) solutions available for Microsoft SQL Server on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) and help you understand the nature of these trade-offs, and the cost and complexity of implementing DR for SQL Server […]

In this series of posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4), we compare and contrast the disaster recovery (DR) solutions available for Microsoft SQL Server on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2). This post introduces three methods for implementing DR for SQL Server on AWS: SQL Server backup and restore, SQL Server […]

In today’s world, it’s just a matter of time before disaster happens, and when it happens it’s essential to recover your SQL Server databases and bring the systems online with minimal data loss and downtime. To respond to and recover from an outage of SQL Server database access, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) […]