Overview

The SQL Server Amazon Machine Images (AMI) is built, updated, and fully-patched by AWS within five business days of Microsoft's patch Tuesday (the second Tuesday of each month). Launching an instance from this AMI enables you to run the instance as a database server and saves you the effort to install SQL Server software. This AMI comes with following software and drivers including AWS Systems Manager, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, Network drivers, and Storage drivers.

You can use AWS Launch Wizard to easily size, configure, and deploy SQL Server applications on AWS. Launch Wizard for SQL Server supports both single instance and high availability deployments according to AWS and SQL Server best practices.

Highlights

Built, updated, and fully-patched by AWS for SQL Server running on EC2.
Preinstalled with AWS Systems Manager, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, and various drivers to make your management easier.
Accelerate SQL Server single instance and high availability deployments with AWS Launch Wizard.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Express on Windows Server 2019

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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

Version release notes

Changes:

AWSPowerShell v4.1.694
AWS NVMe v1.6.0
cfn-init v2.0.31
EC2 Launch v1.3.2005065
SSM v3.3.1230.0
Windows Security Updates current to November 12th 2024

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Best to connect, communicate and access with database

Reviewed on Oct 09, 2021

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What do you like best about the product?

It is a powerful tool for managing and storing relational database. It is a Powerful data management tool for desktop and web applications. In an IT industry, must used tool as without DB, nothing is possible for developers to communicate with server. Easy to understand and use.

What do you dislike about the product?

Partitioning does not provide as much options as oracle.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

For my daily needs to develop my software and communicate with DB and store my data.

Using Microsoft SQL Server as a main Database management system

Reviewed on Oct 06, 2021

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What do you like best about the product?

The free and light version of the SQL server provides many of the features of the paid, full versions of the Microsoft SQL Server database management system.

What do you dislike about the product?

It has technical restrictions that make it unsuitable for some large-scale deployments.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I utilized it in Azure by installing it on an Azure virtual machine and developed small server-driven applications.