Since the public release of AWS’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, Cloudnexa has assisted customers with migrating their SQL Server infrastructures into the AWS cloud.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports native backup and restore procedures. But you can’t restore a backup file to an RDS DB instance multiple times to create copies of the database. Is there a way to get around this limitation? This post documents one such approach.
Cloudnexa's vNOC Account Review will check for any manual snapshots that exceed a certain age threshold, to keep track of lingering snapshots that might no longer be in use, or necessary to keep.