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Converting an RDS for SQL Server instance from license included to Bring Your Own Media (BYOM)

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By Mesgana Gormley, Barry Ooi, Sudhir Amin
| Amazon Web Services
AWS Database Blog Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server recently launched Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), so you can use your existing SQL Server licenses with fully managed RDS instances (see Unlock license mobility with Bring Your Own Media on fully managed Amazon RDS for SQL Server). This is particularly valuable if you have existing Microsoft licensing agreements and want to optimize your cloud spending by using those investments on AWS.
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Configure Optimize CPU on Amazon RDS for SQL Server | Amazon Web Services

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By Barry Ooi, Sudarshan Roy
| Amazon Web Services
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now offers the Optimize CPU feature, which enabled control over vCPU allocation through core count modification setting. SQL Server licensing costs can consume a significant portion of your database budget, especially when you’re paying for vCPUs that aren’t fully utilized.
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Capture and diagnose I/O bottlenecks on Amazon RDS for SQL Server | Amazon Web Services

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By Barry Ooi, Rita Ladda
| Amazon Web Services
In our previous post, Capture and tune resource utilization metrics for Amazon RDS for SQL Server,’ we demonstrated how to use Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring and Amazon RDS Performance Insights to diagnose and debug CPU utilization bottlenecks for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server. We discussed the importance of capturing database utilization metrics as a baseline. A baseline allows for a better understanding of workload characteristics and usage trends.
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