Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Bring Your Own Media

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server launches Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) for Microsoft SQL Server. With BYOM, customers who migrate SQL Server applications from on-premises environments can adopt a managed database service on AWS and reuse their existing Microsoft SQL Server licenses, including Software Assurance, through Microsoft's License Mobility program.

Amazon RDS provides a managed SQL Server database service that lowers operating costs with features such as high availability, automated backups and monitoring. BYOM helps customers who currently run Microsoft SQL Server on-premises, on other clouds, or as self-managed SQL Server on Amazon EC2, and want to adopt Amazon RDS and reuse their existing Microsoft SQL Server licenses. They no longer have to incur the cost of additional Microsoft SQL Server licenses, or wait for existing license agreements to expire to adopt RDS. Amazon RDS for SQL Server BYOM is integrated with AWS License Manager so customers can track their Microsoft SQL Server license usage across their AWS environment for licensing compliance.

To learn more about how to set up RDS SQL Server database instances with BYOM, visit the Amazon RDS SQL Server User Guide. For BYOM pricing and regional availability, visit the Amazon RDS for SQL Server pricing page.