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What are sessions in AWS RDS?
A session is database terminology for a database connection serving an application. Sessions that are waiting during database requests contribute to database load. A session might wait for a response for many reasons. A common reason is that the request is executing and using CPU to complete.
What is RDS master user?
Your AWS RDS instance is at risk if you haven’t changed its default master username. It is an alphanumeric name that is used to acquire access to the database instance. When a Relational Database Service instance is first created, there is a need to provide a username, which is the master username.
How to monitor SQL Server on Amazon RDS?
You can monitor your SQL Server DB instance by using CloudWatch Amazon RDS metrics, events, and enhanced monitoring. You can access the log files for your SQL Server DB instance. There are also advanced administrative tasks for working with SQL Server DB instances. For more information, see the following documentation:
Which is the latest version of Amazon RDS?
Amazon RDS SQL Server offers Enterprise, Standard Edition, Web, and Express Editions for SQL Server Versions 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017. For SQL Server 2008 R2 (now deprecated) customers can still keep their database compatibility in 2008 and migrate to a new versions with minimal changes.
How is the time zone set in Amazon RDS?
The time zone of an Amazon RDS DB instance running Microsoft SQL Server is set by default. The current default is Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). You can set the time zone of your DB instance to a local time zone instead, to match the time zone of your applications.
How does Amazon RDS allow direct host access?
Amazon RDS does not allow direct host access to a DB instance via Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH), or Windows Remote Desktop Connection. When you create a DB instance, the master user is assigned to the db_owner role for all user databases on that instance, and has all database-level permissions except for those that are used for backups.