Microsoft Sql Server 2012 Standard

[Tiffany Crutch]

Iam in the same boat as you. Trying to figure out this new model and what not. It looks like you need to purchase from a CSP partner and your keys and ISO files just show up in your Office365 portal now. But then there is still the Open Value program which looks to be going on.

I am going through my own 2022 headache now. I am looking to get Server 2022 Datacenter, and if I want to run datacenter on ESXi it is almost 13k because that SKU includes SA and that is the only SKU Microsoft has put out, and I have to purchase that from the Open Value program. But if I was running Hyper-V then I can get a retail copy of Datacenter for under 6k.

Open Value is what I am looking at. At least we get to keep out old perpetual licensing. I run ESXi as well and am glad you mentioned it. I better make sure I am buying the right license. And will do on the letting you know.

I bought server 2022 licensing a couple of months ago through my normal reseller. As others have mentioned the purchases now are seen through the O365 portal, which I could see might be cumbersome for someone new to it and just wanting server licenses.

A really quick example would be with MFA which requires modern authentication. Modern auth is only supported in a hybrid setup, they are not developing it for on prem. You can no longer setup MFA with OWA without going to a third party because they no longer offer the utility they created for it initially. Essentially they punish you for daring to purchase their product (instead of renting it).

I had this issue earlier this year, we bought 48-cores datacenter to cover 3x hosts back in 2017 and kept the SA up on them to allow us upgrade rights and license portability when we have a refresh so this one was renewed with an open agreement just before the deadline.

My server standard 16-core which was bought through open license slipped through as the SA renewal was Feb this year, thankfully I was able to get SA only through an open value over 3 years rather than 2 years to renew the SA on the open agreement as I already had the license with SA. Open Value seems to just be Open license but over 3 years with the option to pay up front or annually.

Amazon RDS supports several versions and editions of Microsoft SQL Server. The following table shows the most recent supported minor version of each major version. For the full list of supported versions, editions, and RDS engine versions, see Microsoft SQL Server versions on Amazon RDS.

For information about licensing for SQL Server, see Licensing Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS. For information about SQL Serverbuilds, see this Microsoft support article about Where to find information about the latest SQL Server builds.

With Amazon RDS, you can create DB instances and DB snapshots, point-in-time restores, andautomated or manual backups. DB instances running SQL Server can be used inside a VPC. Youcan also use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to connect to a DB instance running SQL Server, and you can use transparent data encryption (TDE) toencrypt data at rest. Amazon RDS currently supports Multi-AZ deployments for SQL Server using SQLServer Database Mirroring (DBM) or Always On Availability Groups (AGs) as a high-availability, failover solution.

To deliver a managed service experience, Amazon RDS does not provide shell access to DBinstances, and it restricts access to certain system procedures and tables that requireadvanced privileges. Amazon RDS supports access to databases on a DB instance using any standardSQL client application such as Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Amazon RDS does not allowdirect host access to a DB instance via Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH), or Windows RemoteDesktop Connection. When you create a DB instance, the master user is assigned to thedb_owner role for all user databases on that instance, and has alldatabase-level permissions except for those that are used for backups. Amazon RDS manages backupsfor you.

A production DB instance should use Multi-AZ deployments. Multi-AZdeployments provide increased availability, data durability, and faulttolerance for DB instances. Multi-AZ deployments for SQL Server areimplemented using SQL Server's native DBM or AGs technology.

If your AWS account has a default VPC, then your DB instance isautomatically created inside the default VPC. If your account does nothave a default VPC, and you want the DB instance in a VPC, you mustcreate the VPC and subnet groups before you create the DB instance.

By default, DB instances are created with a firewall that preventsaccess to them. You therefore must create a security group with thecorrect IP addresses and network configuration to access the DBinstance.

The following table shows the maximum number of supported databases for eachinstance class type and availability mode. Use this table to help you decide ifyou can move from one instance class type to another, or from one availabilitymode to another. If your source DB instance has more databases than the targetinstance class type or availability mode can support, modifying the DB instancefails. You can see the status of your request in the Eventspane.

For example, let's say that your DB instance runs on a db.*.16xlarge with Single-AZ and thatit has 76 databases. You modify the DB instance to upgrade to using Multi-AZAlways On AGs. This upgrade fails, because your DB instance contains moredatabases than your target configuration can support. If you upgrade yourinstance class type to db.*.24xlarge instead, the modification succeeds.

SQL Server Standard Edition uses only a subset of the available processors if the DB instance has more processors than the software limits (24 cores, 4 sockets, and 128GB RAM). Examples of this are the db.m5.24xlarge and db.r5.24xlarge instance classes.

If you have a scenario that requires a larger amount of storage, you can usesharding across multiple DB instances to get around the limit. This approachrequires data-dependent routing logic in applications that connect to thesharded system. You can use an existing sharding framework, or you can writecustom code to enable sharding. If you use an existing framework, the frameworkcan't install any components on the same server as the DB instance.

To use these features, we recommend that you install SQL Server on an Amazon EC2 instance, oruse an on-premises SQL Server instance. In these cases, the EC2 or SQL Serverinstance acts as the Master Data Services server for your SQL Server DB instanceon Amazon RDS. You can install SQL Server on an Amazon EC2 instance with Amazon EBS storage,pursuant to Microsoft licensing policies.

Because of limitations in Microsoft SQL Server, restoring to a point in time beforesuccessfully running DROP DATABASE might not reflect the state ofthat database at that point in time. For example, the dropped database istypically restored to its state up to 5 minutes before the DROPDATABASE command was issued. This type of restore means that youcan't restore the transactions made during those few minutes on your droppeddatabase. To work around this, you can reissue the DROP DATABASEcommand after the restore operation is completed. Dropping a database removesthe transaction logs for that database.

The computation and memory capacity of a DB instance is determined by its DB instanceclass. The DB instance class you need depends on your processing power and memoryrequirements. For more information, see DB instance classes.

Not all DB instance classes are available on all supported SQL Server minor versions. For example, some newer DB instance classes such as db.r6i aren't available on older minor versions. You can use the describe-orderable-db-instance-options AWS CLI command to find out which DB instance classes are available for your SQL Server edition and version.

The Microsoft SQL Server database engine uses role-based security. The master user name that you specify when you create a DB instance is a SQL Server Authentication login that is a member of the processadmin, public, and setupadmin fixed server roles.

Any user who creates a database is assigned to the db_owner role for that database and has all database-level permissions except for those that are used for backups. Amazon RDS manages backups for you.

AWS Services in scope have been fully assessed by a third-party auditor and result in a certification, attestation of compliance, or Authority to Operate (ATO). For more information, see AWS services in scope by compliance program.

You can use Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server databases to build HIPAA-compliant applications.You can store healthcare-related information, including protected health information(PHI), under a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS. For more information,see HIPAA compliance.

To set up auditing, set the parameter rds.sqlserver_audit to the value fedramp_hipaa. If your DB instance is not already using a custom DB parameter group, you must create a custom parameter group and attach it to your DB instance before you can modify the rds.sqlserver_audit parameter. For more information, see Working with parameter groups.

You can use SSL to encrypt connections between your applications and your Amazon RDS DBinstances running Microsoft SQL Server. You can also force all connections to your DBinstance to use SSL. If you force connections to use SSL, it happens transparently tothe client, and the client doesn't have to do any work to use SSL.

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