{"id":1714,"date":"2017-01-25T08:24:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T08:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:24:31","slug":"choose-sql-cloud-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/choose-sql-cloud-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose SQL Cloud Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE POST RDS trial:<\/strong> OH NO: RDS has no sysadmin rights and the app I need has Stored Procs that need that. So I installed an EC2 instance which is a fancy way of saying &#8220;got a computer up and running, logging into it using RDP and installing my own SQL express&#8221;. Gee I could have done that in the first place \ud83d\ude42 Alas. BUT &#8230; a super cool article with <a href=\"https:\/\/d0.awsstatic.com\/whitepapers\/RDS\/Deploying_SQLServer_on_AWS.pdf\">how-to&#8217;s for both RDS and EC2<\/a> setup. <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/cli\">A CLI is also avail<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipaddressguide.com\/cidr#range\">Firewall calc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After doing some digging, AWS is likely a good value for a SQL server. It is called <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonRDS\/latest\/UserGuide\/Welcome.html\">AWS RDS<\/a>. It can <a href=\"http:\/\/calculator.s3.amazonaws.com\/index.html\">be sized and all sorts of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server etc)<\/a> can be chosen and the power of the machine and file size can be chosen. <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AmazonRDS\/latest\/UserGuide\/Welcome.html#Welcome.Costs\">$20-$100 for 20GB of space<\/a>. 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