Running Microsoft Workloads on AWS: Active Directory, Databases, Development, and More

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4. Databases

Ryan Pothecary¹  

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Tonyrefail, UK

 

In a book focused on Microsoft Workloads, you’d be excused for thinking that a chapter dedicated to databases would focus on Microsoft SQL Server. You’d be right of course. I’ve certainly used MySQL and Oracle in a Windows Server environment without issue, but we need to keep in mind that there are certainly options of other database engines for your Microsoft Workloads inside AWS, because the area of databases has evolved over the last 5 years to embrace nonrelational databases as well as database engines created for specific use cases.

While it’s increasingly popular to choose particular ...