SAA-C03 Q593 · Migration

Question

A company wants to migrate a Microsoft SQL Server database server from an on-premises data center to AWS. The company needs access to the operating system of the SQL Server database. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

**Amazon EC2 instances running SQL Server** is the only option that provides **OS-level access**.

**Step-by-step reasoning:**
1. **Requirement 1: Migrate SQL Server** — EC2 supports running Microsoft SQL Server with your own license (BYOL) or using License Included AMIs from the AWS Marketplace.
2. **Requirement 2: Access to the operating system** — EC2 gives you full control over the underlying OS (Windows Server). You can RDP into the instance, install agents, configure OS-level settings, manage file systems, adjust registry settings, and perform any administrative task.
3. **Why not managed services?** — Amazon RDS, Aurora, and Redshift are all **managed database services** where AWS manages the OS layer. You have **zero access** to the underlying operating system. The entire point of

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