Any idea how MSSQL was deployed on RDS in AWS prior to this? Was AWS spinning up some custom Windows instances behind RDS?
Or was the RDS implementation part of how MS figured out how to release this??
Or was the RDS implementation part of how MS figured out how to release this??
The big difference with RDS is that you don't get the full gambit of clustering capabilities that SQL server supports. This is mainly due to the fact they don't have a shared storage model that SQL cluster failover requires.