This document summarizes a session on security and performance best practices for Amazon RDS for SQL Server. The session covers what Amazon RDS for SQL Server is, the security features it provides including network security, instance access controls, data access controls and encryption, and factors that affect database performance such as compute resources, network performance, storage performance, and I/O throughput. The document also discusses how to improve SQL Server performance on Amazon RDS through provisioned IOPS, and considerations for encryption latency, multi-AZ commit latency, and ensuring provisioned IOPS are realized.