Comments on: Getting Started with Amazon EC2 SQL Server 2005

By: Sam Greene

Sam Greene — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:07:11 +0000

Got it – I’ll have to watch Jermiah – saw Kendra do one and it was good stuff. I was also wondering about what type of storage would be used, but EC2 docs say that W2008 is default to EBS, giving you persistent storage. VPN is a extra charge of .05 per hour of connection – and I would assume you could shut that down just like you could with the SQL box. Looks great for SAN meltdowns!

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:58:01 +0000

Also, just to clarify – I did cover the log shipping to a non-SQL box in one of my paid private webcasts at SSWUG. I don’t think it’s still online, but in a nutshell, you can use something like JungleDisk to copy your backups to S3 and then restore them in EC2.

By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:54:52 +0000

Sam – thanks! I wouldn’t expose it to the web. Amazon has a VPN product so you can bridge to your own datacenter.

If you check out http://www.brentozar.com, we’ve got a list of upcoming events on the right. Jeremiah’s got an upcoming webcast on SQL in EC2. Enjoy!

By: Sam Greene

Sam Greene — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:48:32 +0000

Brent,
You mention using this for disaster recovery – shipping logs up to the storage for the machine while it’s shut down. Sounds great to me. What about security to the machine. Would you change to a non-standard port and then force ssl connections? What else could be done?

“You can copy the files to a cheap non-SQL box at Amazon, and only start up the SQL Server once per day (or per week!) to apply the log files. (I see a blog post coming on that after PASS when things die down.)”
Several years later – ever get around to writing this? Maybe just a brief outline of what you’d do?

Thanks oh so much!1