In this session, we dive deep into best practices and considerations for running Microsoft SQL Server on AWS. Learn how to choose between Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and understand how to optimize the performance of your SQL Server deployment for different application types. We review in detail how to provision and monitor your SQL Server databases and how to manage scalability, performance, availability, security, and backup and recovery in both Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2.