22-25 April 2026 
Rafet Ducic
Rafet Ducic is a Senior Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services. He works with automotive and industrial customers to help them bring workloads to the cloud in the most cost-efficient and performance-optimal way. With domain expertise in database technologies and Microsoft licensing, Rafet has more than 20 years of technical experience working with companies of all sizes in the commercial and public sector industries.
Rafet Ducic's Sessions
Scale Your SQL Server Workloads Without Doubling Your CostsSQLBits 2026
Tired of watching your SQL Server licensing costs spike every time you scale up? Most modern servers run with hyper-threading enabled, effectively doubling your vCPU count—and your SQL Server licensing exposure—without delivering proportional performance gains. In this session, I show you how to use AWS Optimize CPU to take back control
Accelerate SQL Server Modernization to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with Agentic AISQLBits 2026
Modernizing SQL Server workloads to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is often slowed by schema conversion complexity and application refactoring. This workshop demonstrates how AWS Transform uses agentic AI to automate the end-to-end modernization journey—from database assessment and schema conversion to infrastructure provisioning and application code transformation. Come and learn by doing through hands-on labs, where traditionally manual, error-prone migration steps become guided, production-ready workflows aligned with AWS best practices—reducing migration risk, minimizing developer effort, and accelerating delivery timelines.