Can I run Octopus Server on AWS SQL RDS?

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I am in the midst of provisioning an EC2 instance for Octopus, and I would love to host the database in AWS SQL RDS. I know that Azure SQL is supported, but does anyone have any experience with using RDS?

Thanks,
Erick

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Hi Erick,

Thanks for getting in touch! It’s not something we’ve tested, but our experience with RDS is that it is just SQL Server, so I can’t see why it wouldn’t work (SQL Azure is a pretty different beast, but RDS is, as far as I understand, just plain SQL Server).

Paul Stovell

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Thanks for the quick response Paul. I’ll give it a try and post my results here.

Thanks,
Erick

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We are going to try this too, as it will remove some of the admin overhead, I’ll come back and let you know how we get on.

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Thanks Charlie, I’m still getting ready to try this out and will update as well.

Erick

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So far so good, I have got the server up and running and talking to database hosted on RDS, I have also successfully re-built the octopus server and using the master key attached to the original database.

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Likewise, I have Octopus up and running against SQL Server RDS. We’re at the start of the migration, but so far so good.