One of the new features introduced with SQL Server 2022 is the ability to connect to any S3-compatible object storage and SQL Server supports both Backup/Restore and data lake virtualization with Polybase integration. In this blog, we will demonstrate both of these features for SQL Server 2022 Containers running on Kubernetes. As usual, I will use the Azure Kubernetes Service as my Kubernetes environment :).
To know more about these features, refer SQL Server backup to URL for S3-compatible object storage – SQL Server | Microsoft Learn and Access external data: S3-compatible object storage – PolyBase – SQL Server