Whenever migrating a SQL Server database from on-prem to AWS Cloud, my first preference is always to move it to AWS RDS, the managed database service. So whenever a client asks me to migrate an on-prem SQL Server database, my first question is:
Do you need to access filesystem as part of this database operations?
(Secretly wishing the answer would be NO), but more often than not, SSIS is the deal breaker in such database migration and the database ends up on an EC2 instance, which is still better than having it on-prem.
Managing a SQL Server on EC2 seems like a heavy chore when your other SQL Servers are humming smoothly on RDS and you know you don't have to nurse and babysit them. Well the prayers have been answered and the days of looking at those EC2 based SQL Servers having SSIS are numbered
AWS has announced SSIS support on RDS. For now, its only compatible with either SQL Server 2016 and 2017, which is a bit of a bummer, but still a welcome thing. SSIS is enabled through option groups in RDS and you have to do the S3 integration which is fairly straight forward. You can find step by step instructions here.
Looking forward to migrate my SSIS-struck EC2 based SQL Servers to RDS now.
Do you need to access filesystem as part of this database operations?
(Secretly wishing the answer would be NO), but more often than not, SSIS is the deal breaker in such database migration and the database ends up on an EC2 instance, which is still better than having it on-prem.
Managing a SQL Server on EC2 seems like a heavy chore when your other SQL Servers are humming smoothly on RDS and you know you don't have to nurse and babysit them. Well the prayers have been answered and the days of looking at those EC2 based SQL Servers having SSIS are numbered
AWS has announced SSIS support on RDS. For now, its only compatible with either SQL Server 2016 and 2017, which is a bit of a bummer, but still a welcome thing. SSIS is enabled through option groups in RDS and you have to do the S3 integration which is fairly straight forward. You can find step by step instructions here.
Looking forward to migrate my SSIS-struck EC2 based SQL Servers to RDS now.
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