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.

Proposed Sessions for 2026

Scale Your SQL Server Workloads Without Doubling Your Costs
 

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