AWS announced that Amazon Relation Database Service (Amazon RDS) is offering 4 new capabilities to help customers optimize their costs as well as improve efficiency and scalability for their Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server databases.
These enhancements include SQL Server Developer Edition support and expanded storage capabilities for both RDS for Oracle and RDS for SQL Server.
Additionally, users can have CPU optimization options for RDS for SQL Server on M7i and R7i instances, which offer price reductions from previous generation instances and separately billed licensing fees, according to AWS.
SQL Server Developer Edition is now available on RDS for SQL Server, offering a free SQL Server edition that includes all the Enterprise Edition functionalities. Developer Edition is licensed specifically for non-production workloads, enabling users to build and test applications without incurring SQL Server licensing costs in development and testing environments.
This release brings significant cost savings to development and testing environments, while maintaining consistency with production configurations, AWS said.
Additionally, users can now use M7i and R7i instances on Amazon RDS for SQL Server to achieve several key benefits. These instances offer significant cost savings over previous generation instances. Users also get improved transparency over database costs with licensing fees and Amazon RDS DB instances costs billed separately.
Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server now support up to 256 TiB storage size, a fourfold increase in storage size per database instance, through the addition of up to three additional storage volumes.
The additional storage volumes provide extensive flexibility in managing database storage needs, said AWS.
These storage volumes offer operational flexibility with zero downtime and users can add or remove additional storage volumes without interrupting database operations.
Users can add storage volumes to new or existing database instances through the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or AWS SDKs.
These capabilities are now available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server are offered.
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