This document summarizes a presentation about migrating SQL Server databases to Amazon RDS. It discusses OutSystems' experience migrating over 800 SQL Server instances to RDS and leveraging several AWS services. It also outlines new features of RDS for SQL Server, including increased storage capacity, instance type support, engine version updates, license inclusion expansions, and other enhancements.

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AWS re:INVENT
Migrating SQL Server Databases
to Amazon RDS
H u g o F r a g o s o – O u t S y s t e m s – C l o u d O p e r a t i o n s M a n a g e r
D a l l a s W i l l e t t – A W S – S e n i o r D a t a b a s e E n g i n e e r
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Agenda
Introduction to Amazon RDS for SQL Server
OutSystems Customer Journey
New Features in RDS for SQL Server
Q&A
M i g r a t i n g S Q L S e r v e r D a t a b a s e s t o A m a z o n R D S

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Amazon RDS—An Introduction
A Managed Database Platform
• Multi-engine support: Amazon Aurora, MySQL,
MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server
• Automated provisioning, patching, scaling,
backup/restore, failover
• High availability with RDS Multi-AZ

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Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Editions
• Enterprise Edition
• Standard Edition
• Web Edition
• Express Edition
Bring Your Own License or License Included
SQL Server Versions
• 2017
• 2016
• 2014
• 2012
• 2008

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Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Scaling
• Scale instances up or down between various instance types
• Scale storage up between 100 GB and 16 TB
High Availability with Database Mirroring
Encryption
• At rest with AWS KMS or TDE
• In transit with TLS/SSL
• Always encrypted (2016 SP1 and later)
Windows Authentication
Enhanced Monitoring for OS Statistics
• 1 second to 60 seconds granularity
• Enable CloudWatch Alarms on Metrics

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Agenda
Introduction to Amazon RDS for SQL Server
OutSystems Customer Journey
New Features in RDS for SQL Server
Q&A
M i g r a t i n g S Q L S e r v e r D a t a b a s e s t o A m a z o n R D S

8. OutSystems Overview

9. The #1 low-code software
platform for building
enterprise-grade web and mobile
applications running on AWS
OutSystems
Full-Stack Visual Development
Full Lifecycle Management
Deploy to Any Device
Overview

10. An Enterprise-Grade
Low-Code Platform that is:
OutSystems
Overview
Fast Secure Easy to Learn Easy to Integrate
with Everything
Using AWS
Services
...delivering your application

11. The Most-Loved
Platform

12. The Most-Loved Platform
According to Gartner PeerInsights
Customers
speak up!
Low-Code is a perfect fit for
mission-critical enterprise
applications

13. Learn More
Visit our Booth
Come to the OutSystems
Booth to See How Easy
it is to Build and Deploy
Enterprise Grade Apps
on AWSI Data
I Logic
I Interface
I Processes

14. OutSystems & AWS

15. OutSystems Global Infrastructure
~26 AWS Services
Amazon
VPC
600+
Amazon
S3
700+
Amazon
RDS
1500+
Amazon
EC2
3000+
Elastic Load
Balancing
700+

16. I 43 Countries
I 22 Industries
I 180+ Global Partners
I 125,000 Community
Members
OutSystems Global Infrastructure
~26 AWS Services
West
Coast East Coast
São Paulo
Ireland
Frankfurt
Singapore
Sidney
Tokyo
AWS OutSystems

17. RDS Usage Growth
Production Workloads ~800 Instances and Counting
85% is AWS RDS
for SQL Server
Hockey Stick Growth
Amazon’s
Growth
OutSystems’
Cloud Growth

18. Central Support Team
365x24x7 Operation
8 Reliability Engineers
I Manage a set of PaaS managed services (52)
I 15 are RDS-related (ex: database restore)
I Majority is fully self-service
I No traditional DBAs
I Performance tuning & maintenance is product
supported by R&D
I Cross-applied to entire infrastructure
Amazon OutSystems Salesforce
HighControl
Customer Control
Provider Control
Source:

19. Day 1, all in:
I RDS
I Automation
RDS Service:
I Fully managed
I Reliable
I Secure
AWS & OutSystems team:
I Amazing support
I Incorporating feedback
I Delivering new functionality
How was this
possible?
Customer Success

20. Speed Without Walls
Compliance
I SOC 2 Type II
I ISO/IEC 27001
I ISO/IEC 22301
I CSA Alliance Membership

21. OutSystems Sentry
PaaS Offer

22. OutSystems Sentry PaaS Offer
……
..
VPC
1
Heavy
forwarder
RDS
S3 CloudWatchSQS
VPC
n
Heavy
forwarder
RDS
S3 CloudWatchSQS

23. …
…..
VPC
n
Heavy
forwarder
RDS
S3 CloudWatchSQS
Cloud
Framework
VPC
Heavy
forwarder
RDS
S3 CloudWatchSQS
Management
VPC
S3
VPN
Server
YUM
VPC
1
Heavy
forwarder
RDS
S3 CloudWatchSQS
Management and Cloud Framework

24. I Scale storage
automation
I Vault account
Global disaster recover
I Compliance
What’s Next?

25. Our Experience with AWS RDS
Continued
AWS & OutSystems
R&D Collaboration
Supports Our Growth

26. Gartner Magic
Quadrant
Leader—Mobile App Dev

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Agenda
Introduction to Amazon RDS for SQL Server
OutSystems Customer Journey
New Features in RDS for SQL Server
Q&A
M i g r a t i n g S Q L S e r v e r D a t a b a s e s t o A m a z o n R D S

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RDS for SQL Server—New Features
Increased Storage and Scale Storage
16 TB Support Launched August 2017
• Up from 4 TB—can now launch an RDS instance with storage between 200 GB and 16 TB
• Support for up to 20k IOPS
Scale Storage Launched November 2017
• Online operation *(with restrictions)

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RDS for SQL Server—New Features
Scale Storage Limitations
Uses EBS Elastic Volumes—limit of one scaling operation every 6 hours
Scale Storage Requires a Single EBS Volume
• New instances use a single volume
• Older instances may have been created with more than one volume
• Magnetic storage uses more than one volume
Determine with AWS CLI (version 1.11.170 or later)
aws rds describe-valid-db-instance-modifications --db-instance-identifier my-sqlserver-db

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RDS for SQL Server – New Features
Scale Storage Limitations
Sample Error Messages
An error occurred (InvalidParameterCombination) when calling the ModifyDBInstance operation: You can't modify the storage
size of this DB instance.
An error occurred (InvalidParameterCombination) when calling the ModifyDBInstance operation: You can't currently modify the
storage of this DB instance. Try again after approximately 5 hours.
aws rds modify-db-instance --db-instance-identifier my-sqlserver-db --allocated-storage 300

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RDS for SQL Server—New Features
New Instance Type Support
Launched November 2017
R4 Instance Class
• Next generation of Memory Optimized
New 16xlarge Instance Size
• 64 vCPU, 488 GiB Memory
• 25 Gib Networking
• 14 Gbps Dedicated EBS

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RDS for SQL Server—New Features
New Instance Type Support
Launched November 2017
M4.16xlarge Instance Size
• 64 vCPU, 256 GiB Memory
• 25 Gib Networking
• 10 Gbps Dedicated EBS
T2.2xlarge Instance Size
• 8 vCPU, 32 GiB Memory
T2.xlarge Instance Size
• 4 vCPU, 16 GiB Memory

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RDS for SQL Server—New Features
New Engine Versions
SQL Server 2016 SP1
• Launched June 2017
SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU5
• Launched November 2017
SQL Server 2017
• Launched November 2017

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RDS for SQL Server—New Features
License Included Region Expansion
Launched July 2017
• Enterprise Edition License Included expanded to All Commercial Regions
• R3, R4, and M4 Instance Classes with a minimum of 4 vCPUs
High Availability Region Expansion
Launched August 2017
• Multi-AZ support expanded to EU Central (Frankfurt)

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RDS for SQL Server—New Features
Windows Authentication Region Expansion
Launched July 2017
• Canada (Central)
• EU (London)
• Asia Pacific (Seoul)

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RDS for SQL Server—New Features
Forced TLS/SSL
Launched February 2017
• Set via rds.force_ssl parameter in your RDS Parameter Group
aws rds modify-db-parameter-group
--db-parameter-group-name my-sqlserver-params
--parameters “name=rds.force_ssl, value=true, method=pending-reboot”

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RDS for SQL Server—New Features
HIPAA BAA Inclusion
Launched September 2017
• All Amazon RDS database engines are now HIPAA-eligible
To enable HIPAA support, enable auditing, transport encryption, and encryption at rest:
Use TDE for Enterprise Edition, or AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for other editions:
aws rds modify-db-parameter-group
--db-parameter-group-name my-sqlserver-hipaa-params
--parameters “name=rds.sqlserver_audit, value=fedramp_hipaa, method=pending-reboot”
--parameters “name=rds.force_ssl, value=true, method=pending-reboot”
aws rds add-option-to-option-group
--option-group-name my-sqlserver-hipaa-option-group
--option-name TDE

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RDS for SQL Server—New Features
aws rds stop-db-instance --db-instance-identifier my-sqlserver-db
aws rds start-db-instance --db-instance-identifier my-sqlserver-db
Stop/Start
Launched June 2017 for all RDS Engines
• Stop and start your dev/test database instances for up to one week
• Instances automatically restarted after 7 days for maintenance operations
• Cannot stop Multi-AZ/Mirrored instances
For durations longer than one week, continue to use a delete with final snapshot

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Agenda
Introduction to Amazon RDS for SQL Server
OutSystems Customer Journey
New Features in RDS SQL Server
Q&A
M i g r a t i n g S Q L S e r v e r D a t a b a s e s t o A m a z o n R D S

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Thank you!
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D a l l a s W i l l e t t – A W S – S e n i o r D a t a b a s e E n g i n e e r
M i g r a t i n g S Q L S e r v e r D a t a b a s e s t o A m a z o n R D S