Bill Jacobi

Developers and DBAs love running their SQL Server workloads on Amazon RDS, which enables them to reduce resources from managing undifferentiated database management tasks. As their applications grow in size, they want to learn best practices for cost optimization.

Amazon RDS helps you efficiently set up, operate, and scale SQL Server databases in the cloud. In this chalk talk, explore strategies and best practices for migrating, operating, and scaling SQL Server on Amazon RDS and Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server.

In this chalk talk, learn how you can modernize your SQL Server applications on Amazon RDS. Discover how to use RDS Proxy to make your applications more scalable, available, and secure.

AWS has the longest experience running and modernizing SQL Server. In this session, consider deployment options for your SQL Server workloads on AWS and learn best practices for how to choose between SQL Server on Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL.

This session discusses how to operate Microsoft technologies securely on AWS, including enabling security best practices using AWS Managed Microsoft AD, building and deploying security-hardened Amazon EC2 Windows images using CIS and STIG baselines, administering Windows instances securely, and taking advantage of hardware advances to improve security. The session also covers how to deploy...