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Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition now available through AWS Launch Wizard

Published
November 5, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/microsoft-sql-server-developer-edition-launch-wizard/

AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server Developer Edition

AWS Launch Wizard now offers a guided approach to sizing, configuring, and deploying Windows Server EC2 instances with Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition installed from your own media. This feature simplifies launching cost-effective and full-featured SQL Server instances on Amazon EC2, ideal for developers building non-production and test database environments.

This feature is particularly beneficial for customers with existing non-production databases running SQL Server Enterprise Edition or SQL Server Standard Edition, as migrating to SQL Server Developer Edition will reduce SQL license costs while maintaining feature parity.

This feature is available in all supported commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

What to do

Source: AWS release notes




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