Amazon EC2 High Availability for SQL Server (SQL HA)
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- Kind
- Cloud policy
- Term
- May be terminated by AWS with as much prior notice as reasonably practicable.
- Aliases
- SQL HA; passive node license waiver
- Definition
- SQL Server on Amazon EC2 User Guide: "This feature identifies the SQL Server standby (also known as passive) instances in your SQL HA deployments and waives SQL Server licensing fees for them, allowing you to pay only Windows rates for these standby instances while maintaining your HA configuration."
- Commercial rules
- License-included SQL Server Standard and Enterprise 2017 and later on Windows Server 2019 and later, Always On Availability Groups or Failover Cluster Instances, same account and Region. An active node covers standby nodes whose total vCPUs do not exceed its own. Not supported with Reserved Instances; Savings Plans recommended.
- Applies to
- SQL Server license-included instances on Amazon EC2.
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