Amazon provides AWS RDS SQL Server as a managed relational database service. You can deploy databases instantly without worrying about underlying hardware platform, license cost, managing data centers. AWS RDS database instances are highly available. It provides a failover mechanism using the Mult-AZ deployments.

In this article, we will review common database administration tasks for AWS RDS (Relational Database Service) SQL Server instance. RDS does not provide access to some of the system procedures and tables that require advanced privileges. So, we cannot perform all the administration tasks on the RDS SQL Server instance.