HOLY COW. Amazon RDS SQL Server Just Changed Everything.
www.brentozar.com/archive/2016/07/holy-cow-amazon-rds-sql-server-just-changed-everything
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Platform-as-a-Service users (Azure SQL DB, Amazon RDS) often ask me: OMG How can I move my data into the cloud? Can I just take a backup on-premises, and restore up in the cloud? How can I use the