Category: High Availability

Licensing Active/Passive SQL Server Configurations in the Cloud
Posted by Rob Risetto on October 20, 2016

Note: SQL Server 2019 Licensing Guide supercedes the information in this post. (Post updated 1/09/2020)

Considering a SQL Server active/passive configuration in the Cloud?

If so, be prepared to fork out more in SQL Server licensing if

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SQL Server Failover between AWS and Azure using SQL 2014 Standard Edition
Posted by Rob Risetto on September 11, 2016

In Part 1 of this series I described how to create a three node, multi-site SQL Server 2014 cluster across two AWS servers

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SQL Server Failover between AWS and Azure – Part 1
Posted by Rob Risetto on June 01, 2016

We have all heard the story about the online business whose AWS account got hacked and had all of its Cloud inventory destroyed, then there’s the occasional scenario where a Cloud provider is totally disabled by a “core” infrastructure fault.

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