Kevin Hill has a reminder for us:
Here’s a common theme I hear from small IT teams:
“Our SQL Server is in the cloud now. We don’t need a DBA.”
Not quite.
When you’re running SQL Server on cloud virtual machines like Azure SQL VM or AWS EC2, you’re still responsible for a lot of the same challenges you faced on-prem. The difference? Now you’re paying cloud rates for the same headaches. But you don’t have to deal with hardware and some of the other infrastructure hassles.
Read on to see what that entails in practice. Though I’m pretty sure my target audience generally understands this and it’s people two or three levels up who should give Kevin’s post a read.