Blurring the Lines - Microsoft SQL on Amazon Web Services - In Person AND Online

Hey guys! for the first time this year, we are going to try out an IN PERSON meetup! (The meetup will also be live streamed online) we have a huge meeting space that can fit over a 100 people easily! so, everyone can still be spaced out quite a bit.

• We will have FOOD
• We will have drinks (Beer/Soda/Water)
• We will have Fun Gift Card Drawings!

TEAMS MEETING LINK:
https://bit.ly/2YlG7vK

Meeting Sched
5:30PM - Doors open
5:30PM - 6:00PM - Networking/Food/Drinks
6:00PM - 7:00PM - Main Presentation

SESSION ABSTRACT -
Blurring the Lines - Microsoft SQL on Amazon Web Services

Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. With RDS, you can focus on your applications so you can give them the fast performance, high availability, security, and compatibility they need.
AWS is constantly adding new capabilities so you can leverage the latest technologies to experiment and innovate more quickly. This session will provide you insight and guidance about these new RDS capabilities and features, to optimize your deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery processes.

SPEAKER BIO -
Phil Ekins - Sr Solutions Architect, AWS

Phil Ekins is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS within the Microsoft stack and a SME on SQL Server. With over two decades of DBA experience on SQL Server and extensive experience guiding customers on Cloud Architectures, Migrations, Virtualization and HA/DR Solutions. As an AWS Architect and as a seasoned SQL Server Professional, Phil brings the DBA’s needs to the world of cloud computing.