Faster, Cheaper Cloud Databases
2025TL; DR
❓ You're managing databases that live in cloud whether it be AWS, Azure, and Google, and you're getting a lot of questions about slow performance and crazy costs.
❓Your users want everything faster and cheaper, and you're not finding good answers.
Join me, Brent Ozar, for a day of real-time demos, honest war stories, and practical fixes.
Session Details
❓ You're managing databases that live in cloud whether it be AWS, Azure, and Google, and you're getting a lot of questions about slow performance and crazy costs.
❓Your users want everything faster and cheaper, and you're not finding good answers.
Join me, Brent Ozar, for a day of real-time demos, honest war stories, and practical fixes. I'll show how I use the First Responder Kit to assess the bottleneck, mitigate as much as I can with index and query tuning, and then write up a business case for management for better future budgeting.
Throughout the day, I'll include real-life stories from my cloud clients, with names changed to protect the innocent. I'll explain what worked, what didn't, and what went up in expensive flames.
I'll be using different flavours of SQL from across the clouds like Azure SQL DB Managed Instance and Amazon RDS SQL Server to highlight how each has nuances but also lots of similarities.
By the end of the day, you'll be armed with real-world techniques for keeping your cloud databases faster, cheaper, and more future-proof.
❓Your users want everything faster and cheaper, and you're not finding good answers.
Join me, Brent Ozar, for a day of real-time demos, honest war stories, and practical fixes. I'll show how I use the First Responder Kit to assess the bottleneck, mitigate as much as I can with index and query tuning, and then write up a business case for management for better future budgeting.
Throughout the day, I'll include real-life stories from my cloud clients, with names changed to protect the innocent. I'll explain what worked, what didn't, and what went up in expensive flames.
I'll be using different flavours of SQL from across the clouds like Azure SQL DB Managed Instance and Amazon RDS SQL Server to highlight how each has nuances but also lots of similarities.
By the end of the day, you'll be armed with real-world techniques for keeping your cloud databases faster, cheaper, and more future-proof.
3 things you'll get out of this session
You'll learn:
✅How Brent uses the First Responder Kit to assess a cloud SQL Server's wait types
✅Why each cloud vendor's VM quirks make performance tuning tricky, and how to adapt
✅How to fix blocking, logging, and CPU issues when the hardware isn't yours
✅How to write a persuasive performance report for management to fairly lay out where the problem is, and what steps to take next
Speakers
Brent Ozar's other proposed sessions for 2026
20 Years of the Cloud: What Changed, What Didn’t, and What’s Next - 2026
AI in Your Career: Sidekick, Hero, or Villain? - 2026
Calling AI from T-SQL: Real-Life Lessons from sp_BlitzCache - 2026
Dev-Prod Demon Hunters: Finding the Real Cause of Production Slowness - 2026
Pokémon Battle, Choose Your Index: You Can’t Have Them All - 2026
The Big Red Button: How to Use sp_Kill - 2026
Watch Brent Tune a Query in SQL Server 2025 - 2026