What’s new in Microsoft SQL Server 2025 on AWS

This article announces SQL Server 2025 availability on AWS with new features for backups, performance, and developer capabilities.

• SQL Server 2025 now available on AWS EC2 and Amazon RDS for SQL Server
• Standard edition now supports 32 CPU cores and 256GB RAM; Resource Governor added to Standard
• Developer and Developer editions available for non-production testing without MSDN licensing
• Backups can run from secondary replicas in Always On Availability Groups
• New ZSTD compression algorithm improves backup efficiency and reduces storage footprint
• Distributed contained availability groups simplify management by replicating server-level objects
• Query Store enhancements provide consistent performance across readable secondaries
• Accelerated Database Recovery in tempdb enables instantaneous transaction rollback
• New sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint stored procedure connects SQL Server to AWS services via REST APIs
• SQL Server Reporting Services consolidated under Power BI Report Server with enhanced features

SQL Server 2025 on AWS offers improved backup strategies, enhanced availability features, better performance optimization, and deeper integration with AWS services through native REST endpoints.