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.

Highlights

Built, updated, and fullly-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 2017 Standard on Windows Server 2022

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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
SSM v3.3.1230.0
Windows Security Updates current to November 12th 2024

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