What Is Amazon Launch Wizard for SQL Server? - Amazon Launch Wizard
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What Is Amazon Launch Wizard for SQL Server?

Amazon Launch Wizard is a service that guides you through the sizing, configuration, and deployment of Microsoft SQL Server applications on Amazon, following the Amazon Well-Architected Framework. Amazon Launch Wizard supports both single instance and high availability (HA) application deployments.

Amazon Launch Wizard reduces the time it takes to deploy SQL Server solutions to the cloud. You input your application requirements, including performance, number of nodes, and connectivity, on the service console. Amazon Launch Wizard identifies the right Amazon resources to deploy and run your SQL Server application. Amazon Launch Wizard provides an estimated cost of deployment, and you can modify your resources and instantly view the updated cost assessment. When you approve, Amazon Launch Wizard provisions and configures the selected resources in a few hours to create a fully-functioning production-ready SQL Server application. It also creates custom Amazon CloudFormation templates, which can be reused and customized for subsequent deployments.

Once deployed, your SQL Server application is ready to use and can be accessed on the EC2 console. You can manage your SQL Server application with Amazon SSM.

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Supported operating systems and SQL versions

Amazon Launch Wizard supports the following operating systems and SQL Server versions:

Deployments on Windows

  • Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012 R2

  • Enterprise and Standard Editions of Microsoft SQL Server 2022/2019/2017/2016

Amazon FSx for Failover Clustering (FCI) deployments on Windows

  • Windows Server 2022/2019/2016

  • Enterprise and Standard Editions of Microsoft SQL Server 2022/2019/2017/2016 SP2

    CUs are installed at the same time as public AMIs for SQL license-included AMIs. CUs and service packs are not installed for license-included Windows AMIs and BYOL AMIs.

Deployments on Ubuntu

  • Ubuntu 18.04

  • Enterprise and Standard Edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2019

Deployments on RHEL

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9

  • Enterprise and Standard Edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2019/2017

Default quotas

Launch Wizard allows for a maximum of 50 active applications (with status in progress or completed) for any given application type. If you want to increase this limit, contact Amazon Web Services Support. Launch Wizard supports three parallel, in-progress deployments per account.

Amazon Web Services Regions

Launch Wizard uses various Amazon services during the provisioning of the application's environment. Not every workload is supported in all Amazon Web Services Regions. For a current list of Regions where the workload can be provisioned, see Amazon Launch Wizard workload availability.