Amazon EC2 reduces costs for Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability deployments
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This article announces AWS's new capability to reduce licensing costs for Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability deployments on Amazon EC2.
- Designate EC2 instances running license-included SQL Server as HA cluster members
- Supports Always On Availability Groups and failover cluster instances
- Saves up to 40% of full HA costs with no performance impact
- Example: Two m8i.4xlarge instances with license-included Windows and SQL Server
- Available in all commercial AWS Regions
This enhancement reduces costs for mission-critical SQL Server databases by optimizing licensing for HA deployments.
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