By Amazon Web Services
Publication Date: 2025-11-17 22:29:00
AWS has helped hundreds of thousands of customers transition their SQL Server workloads to the cloud since 2008, longer than any other cloud provider. Running business-critical applications often requires Microsoft SQL Server databases to be highly available. Customers choosing to use SQL Server for their mission-critical workloads can achieve high availability by deploying SQL Server using Always On technology on EC2. SQL Server Always On can be deployed in two main configurations: Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) and Always On Availability Groups (AGs).
In our previous post we showed how to use Optimize CPU for License Included feature for core licensing optimization. In this post, we show you how to reduce SQL Server high availability costs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) by up to 40% using the new Amazon EC2 High Availability for SQL Server feature with SQL Server License Included (LI).
