Migrate to AWS EC2 with SQL licensing included
While performing a lift and shift migration of Windows SQL Server using the AWS Application Migration Service I was challenged with wanting the newly migrated instance to have a Windows OS license ‘included’ but additionally the SQL Server Standard license billed to the account. The customer was moving away from their current hosting platform where […]
Tagging EC2 EBS Volumes in Auto Scaling Groups
Tagging becomes a huge part of your life when in the public cloud. Metadata is thrown around like hotcakes, and why not. At cloudstep.io we preach the ways of the DevOps gods and especially infrastructure as code for repeatable and standardised deployments. This way everything is uniform and everything gets a TAG! I ran into […]