Amazon EC2 reduces costs for Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability deployments

Today, AWS announced that you can now designate Amazon EC2 instances running license-included SQL Server as part of a High-Availability (HA) cluster to reduce licensing costs with just a few clicks. This enhancement is particularly valuable for mission-critical SQL Server databases with Always On Availability Groups and/or Always On failover cluster instances. For example, you can save up to 40% of the full HA costs with no performance compromises when running SQL Server HA on two m8i.4xlarge instances with license-included Windows and SQL Server. This feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions. To learn more, see Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2 [User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sql-server-ec2/latest/userguide/sql-high-availability.html) or read the [blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/modernizing-with-aws/amazon-ec2-reduces-costs-for-microsoft-sql-server-high-availability-deployments).