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3 November 2024

Continuously optimize your Microsoft SQL Server workloads with Databases

BlueXP workload factory introduces continuous guidance and guardrails to ensure ongoing optimization and adherence to best practices for the storage component of your Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This feature continuously scans your Microsoft SQL Server estate offline, providing you with a comprehensive report of insights, opportunities, and recommendations to help you achieve peak performance, cost-efficiency, and compliance.

Terraform support

You can now use Terraform from the Codebox to deploy Microsoft SQL Server.

29 September 2024

Explore savings for detected Microsoft SQL servers on FSx for Windows File Server

You can now explore savings of detected Microsoft SQL servers on Amazon EC2 with FSx for Windows File Server storage in the savings calculator. Depending on your SQL server and storage requirements, you might find that FSx for ONTAP storage is the most cost effective for your database workloads.

1 September 2024

Explore savings via customization

You can now customize configuration settings for Microsoft SQL server on Amazon EC2 with FSx for Windows File Server and Elastic Block Store storage in the savings calculator. Depending on your storage requirements, you might find that FSx for ONTAP storage is the most cost effective for your database workloads.

You can now navigate to the savings calculator from the Workload Factory console home page. Select from Elastic Block Store and FSx for Windows File Server to get started.

screenshot of the Workload Factory console home page. Image shows databases tile with a new explore savings button. Click the button to open a dropdown menu. The dropdown menu has two options - Microsoft SQL Server on EBS and Microsoft SQL Server on FSx for Windows File Server.

4 August 2024

Savings calculator enhancements

  • Cost estimate descriptions

    You can now learn how cost estimates are calculated in the savings calculator. You'll be able to review descriptions of all calculations for your Microsoft SQL Server instances using Amazon Elastic Block Store storage as compared to using Amazon FSx for ONTAP storage.

  • Support for Always On availability group

    Databases now provides cost savings calculations for the Always On availability group deployment type with Microsoft SQL Server using Amazon Elastic Block Store.

  • Optimize SQL server licensing with FSx for ONTAP

    The Databases calculator determines whether the SQL license edition you use with Amazon Elastic Block Store storage is optimized for your database workloads. You'll get a recommendation for the optimal SQL license with FSx for ONTAP storage.

  • Multiple SQL server instances

    Databases now provides cost savings calculations for a configuration hosting multiple Microsoft SQL Server instances using Amazon Elastic Block Store.

  • Customize calculator settings

    Now you can customize settings for Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon EC2, and Elastic Block Store to explore savings manually. The savings calculator will determine the best configuration based on cost.

7 July 2024

Initial release of Workload Factory for Databases

The initial release includes the capability to explore savings with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as the storage environment for your database workloads, detect, manage, and deploy Microsoft SQL Servers, deploy and clone databases, and monitor these jobs within Workload Factory.