22-25 April 2026 
Baris Furtinalar
Baris Furtinalar is a Principal Solutions Architect who is part of specialists in Microsoft architectures team at AWS. He is passionate about cloud computing and he believes this shift to the cloud helps companies transform their businesses, gain agility, and improve operational responsiveness. He comes from a diverse background including SQL database administration, virtualization and system security. He designed, implemented and supported Windows/SQL server deployments since 2000.
Sessions for 2026
SQL Server 2025 Unleashed on AWS: Building Intelligent, Resilient, and Cost-Effective Solutions
Discover how SQL Server 2025 transforms your database operations on AWS with groundbreaking features spanning AI integration, high availability, and cloud-native operations. This session demonstrates practical implementations of the latest SQL Server 2025 capabilities optimized for AWS infrastructure.
AWS fundamentals for the accidental SQL Server DBA
Master AWS for SQL Server DBAs: map your DBA expertise to cloud architecture roles, design resilient networking and storage, tune performance for demanding workloads, and build battle-tested high availability and disaster recovery architectures, all while keeping your environment secure and costs under control.