DAT323: Best Practices for Running SQL Server on Amazon RDS

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides a managed service to run SQL Server databases in AWS. While Amazon RDS handles provisioning and maintaining the SQL Server instance, there are things you can do to ensure that the SQL Server instance is healthy. We'll review some best practices involved in configuring the Amazon RDS SQL Server instance, focusing on availability, security and migration. We'll also hear from our customer Allstate, sharing details about their use of Amazon RDS.