Amazon for RDS SQL

Server
Introduction

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Agenda
 Introduction to RDS for SQL Server
 High Availability
 Database Parameters and Options
 Backup and Recovery
 Securing RDS for SQL Server
 Performance Monitoring
 Scaling and Optimization
 Business Intelligence Features

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Relational databases are complex

Our experience running

Amazon.com taught us that
relational databases are
challenging to manage and
operate with high availability
It’s expensive and complex to manage
administrative functions including
regular patching cycles, performance
optimization, and backup and disaster
recovery—all for constantly changing
applications

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Self managing relational databases is
time consuming, complex, and expensive

Hardware & software installation, configuration, patching, and

backups

Performance and high availability issues

Capacity planning, and scaling clusters for compute and storage

Security and compliance

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Amazon RDS
Managed relational database service with a choice of six popular
database engines

Easy to Secure & Available & Performant &

administer compliant durable scalable

Easily deploy and Data encryption at rest Automatic Multi-AZ Scale compute
maintain hardware, and in transit; industry data replication; and storage with a few
OS and DB software; compliance and automated backup, clicks; minimal
built-in monitoring assurance programs snapshots, failover downtime for your
application

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Amazon RDS - fully managed
Spend time innovating & building new apps, not managing
infrastructure
Automatic fail-over
Backup & recovery
Isolation & security
Schema design Industry compliance
Query construction You AWS Push-button scaling
Query optimization Automated patching &
upgrades
Advanced monitoring
Routine maintenance

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Amazon RDS for SQL Server
• Same SQL Server DB engine as customers
run on premises Scaling

• Management, monitoring, and automation High Availability

layer around the DB engine Database Backups
• Automated full DB instance backups, with DBMS Patching
point-in-time restore DBMS Install/Maintenance
• Automated high availability (HA) OS Patching
• Automated provisioning, patching, OS Install/Maintenance
monitoring, directory integration
Power, HVAC, net

AWS managed

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What customer is responsible for?
• You still own the integrity of your databases
• DBCC CHECKDB, etc. still required
• Index and statistics maintenance
• You are responsible for index fragmentation, etc.
 Focus on internal page fragmentation; more important than ordering on disk
because data is on EBS
• Keep your statistics up to date; don’t disable AutoStats unless
you know what you’re doing
• Logins and permissions
• No change from on premise; you create logins, users, and roles
and assign permissions

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 Amazon RDS for SQL Server features
Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Versions Supported: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022

Editions Supported: Express, Web, Standard, Enterprise

Licensing Options: License Included Only

High Availability: AWS-managed
In-Transit with SSL, At-rest with AWS KMS, SQL TDE,
Encryption:
Column-Level encryption, or AlwaysEncrypted
Authentication: Windows & SQL Authentication
Managed automated backups, Native SQL Server backup,
Backup / Recovery:
PiTR
Maintenance: Automatic software patching
Business Intelligence
SSAS, SSRS, SSIS
Features
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 Limitations
Instance Class Single-AZ Multi-AZ with Multi-AZ with
Type DBM Always On AGs
db.*.large 30 30 30
db.*.xlarge to 100 50 75
db.*.16xlarge
db.*.24xlarge to 100 50 100
Db.*.32xlarge

• Maximum 100 databases per instance (may be increased to 200, if needed)

• No sysadmin role, server administrator, or direct file system access
• Not supported: maintenance plans, filestream, see complete list at
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_SQLServer.ht
ml#SQLServer.Concepts.General.FeatureNonSupport

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Building blocks of RDS

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 Av a i l a b l e i n s t a n c e t y p e s
M5 Family R5 Family X1e/X1 Family
• General Purpose Instances • Memory Optimized • X1e.Xlarge (4 vCPU/122 GiB)
• M5.Large (2 vCPU/8 GiB) • R5.Large (2 vCPU/16 GiB) • X1e.32Xlarge (128 vCPU/3,904 GiB)
• M5.24Xlarge (96 vCPU/384 GiB) • R5.24Xlarge (96 vCPU/768 GiB) • X1.16Xlarge (64 vCPU/976 GiB)
• High performance networking • High performance networking • X1.32Xlarge (128 vCPU/1,952 GiB)
• Good for running CPU intensive • Good for query intensive • Optimized for large-scale, enterprise-
workloads (e.g. WordPress) workloads or high connection class and in-memory applications,
counts and offer one of the lowest price per
GiB of RAM among Amazon EC2
instance type

T3 Family
• Burstable instances z1d Family
• Moderate networking • CPU Optimized, 4GHz
performance • Memory Optimized
• Good for smaller or variable • z1d.Large (2 vCPU/16 GiB)
workloads • z1d.12Xlarge (48 vCPU/384 GiB)
• T3.micro is eligible for free
tier

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Available instance types
R5b M5d/R5d
• Best network-attached • Up to 3,600 GiB of Non-
storage performance Volatile Memory Express
available on EC2 (NVMe) SSD-based instance
• 3x higher EBS storage
optimized performance • Automatic TempDB placement
compared to R5 instances on locally attached NVMe
• Up to 64K IOPs, 60,000 Mbps disks when provisioned
• Optimized for low latency,
very high random I/O
performance, and high
sequential read throughput

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Latest instance families
M6i R6i X2iedn
• General Purpose Instances • Memory Optimized instances • X2iedn.Xlarge (4 vCPU/128 GiB)
• 15% better compute price • 15% better compute price • X2iedn.32Xlarge (128 vCPU/4,096
performance over M5 performance over R5 instances GiB)
instances • R6i.Large (2 vCPU/16 GiB) • Optimized for large-scale, enterprise-
• M6i.Large (2 vCPU/8 GiB) • R6i.24Xlarge (96 vCPU/768 class and in-memory applications, and
• M6i.24Xlarge (96 vCPU/384 GiB) offer one of the lowest price per GiB
GiB) • Up to 50 Gbps of networking of RAM among Amazon EC2 instance
• Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed types
speed • Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to • 2x faster than X1e instances
• Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth the Amazon Elastic Block Store • Up to 3,800 GiB of Non-Volatile
to the Memory Express (NVMe) SSD-based
Amazon Elastic Block Store instance storage
• Automatic TempDB placement on
locally attached NVMe disks when
provisioned

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Amazon elastic block storage
• Network-attached block storage
• Native redundancy and write cache
• Consistent and low-latency performance
• Optimized for random I/O
• Many instance types support EBS
optimization
• Dedicated channel for network storage I/O
• Eliminating contention with regular I/O

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 High-performance database storage
General purpose (GP2) General purpose (GP3) Provisioned IOPS (IO1) Provisioned IOPS (IO2)

• IOPS determined by • 3,000 IOPS & 125 MB/sec • IOPS scales • IOPS scales
volume size guaranteed at any size independently from independently from
• SSD storage • SSD storage volume size volume size
• Auto scale up to 16 TiB • Auto scale up to 16 TiB • SSD storage • SSD storage
• Up to 16K IOPs, 250 • Up to 16K IOPs, 1,000 • Auto scale up to 16 TiB • Auto scale up to 64 TiB
MiB/sec throughput MiB/sec throughput • Up to 64K IOPs, 1,000 • Up to 256K IOPs, 4,000
• Affordable performance • IOPS and throughput can MiB/sec throughput MiB/sec throughput
• Wide variety of be scaled independently • IO-intensive workloads • IO-intensive workloads
workloads from volume size • Delivers provisioned • Delivers provisioned
• Provisioned performance • Affordable performance performance 99.9% of performance 99.9% of
99% of the time • Wide variety of the time the time
workloads
• Provisioned performance
99.9% of the time
• Same baseline price as
GP2

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Deploy and manage Amazon RDS for SQL
Server
Multiple ways to start and manage your SQL Server using AWS

Amazon AWS Command AWS SDKs AWS

RDS Line Interface CloudFormati
Management (CLI) on templates
Console or
AWS Tools for
PowerShell

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