Getting Our Heads in the Cloud. It Will Soon Be The New Normal.
  • Course Introduction. What Will We Be Doing and Is It Right For You?
  • Services We Will Be Talking About In This Course.
  • What Is a Cloud Computing? Let's Define it Before We Look At Amazon's Take.
  • Amazon AWS Overview. AWS Stands For Amazon Web Services. Everything is a Service
  • Amazon RDS Overview. RDS Stands For Relational Database Services.
  • Summary. Let's Wrap Up What We've Learned About the Cloud and AWS.
  • Errata. The User Guides For AWS Are Living Documents.
  • Section 1 Quiz
Cloud Preparation. Let's Create Our AWS Account.
  • Download Course Material Here.
  • Creating an Account in the AWS Free Tier. There is one Caveat You Should Know.
  • Monitoring Our Cost. How Much Do We Owe?
  • Summary. Let's Wrap Up What We've Learned About the Cloud and AWS.
Amazon AWS Services We Need to Know Before We Begin With RDS
  • The Two Approaches To Putting SQL Sever in The Cloud.
  • What is EC2? It's One of The Core Services Amazon's Provides. Let's have a look.
  • Creating A SQL Server Instance Inside of EC2.
  • What's a Virtual Private Cloud? Let's Get A 1000 Foot View of VPCs.
  • Summary. Let's Wrap Up What We've Learned About Other AWS Services.
  • Section 3 Quiz.
Stepping Through Every Database Option For An RDS Instance.
  • Blueprint for Spinning Up Our Instance in RDS.
  • Instance Specifications - Our First Three Options
  • Instance Specifications - Our Fourth Option is DB Classes
  • Instance Specification - Our Fifth Option is About Availability Zones
  • Instance Specification - Our Sixth Option is About Storage Selection
  • Instance Specification - Our Seventh Option is Database Settings
  • What is SSL? Our Next Option Will Deal With Security So Let's Set The Backdrop
  • Our Eighth Option Will Deal With Database Parameters
  • The Ninth And Final Option is Backups.
  • Limits For SQL Server Databases. There Are Some Big Ones. Pay Attention Here.
  • Cloud VS Local. A Simple IO Test Before You Move Your Database to The Cloud
  • Summary. Let's Wrap Up What We've Learned About RDS.
  • Section 4 Quiz
Creating Various RDS Instances. It's Time To Get Our Hands Dirty.
  • Create A Highly Available RDS Instance and Fail it Over
  • Using Snapshots. Creating, Restoring and Renaming. A Snapshot is a Backup.
  • Vertically Scale An Instance With the Click of A Button
  • Monitoring Our Instances With ClouldWatch. This is Amazon's Perfmon.
  • Summary. Let's Wrap Up Creating A RDS Instance.
  • Section 5 Quiz
Moving AdventureWorks to the Cloud
  • Moving AdventureWorks To The Cloud. The "Recommended" Approach
  • Moving AdventureWorks To The Cloud. My Recommend Way.
  • Scripting Logins From On Premise To Our Cloud. This Will Work For All Servers.
  • Summary. Let's Wrap Up What Our Schema and Data Migration Tools.
  • Section 6 Quiz
Conclusion
  • Interview Questions Specific to AWS and RDS.
  • Congratulations and Thank You