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Cloud Changelog
Amazon RDS for SQL Server changelog
52 announcements since January 2025 · 3 GA · 3 Region expansions
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October 20265
Supports latest Cumulative Updates and GDR updates for SQL Server 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2025
Supports SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR and SQL Server 2022 CU26+GDR updates
Snapshots can be created directly on read replicas, in-region and cross-region
Supports RDS for SQL Server instances running major version 2022
Supports SQL Server 2025 CU8 KB5104822 (RDS version 17.00.4075.5.v1)
September 20265
August 20264
July 20262
June 20266
Supports SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR and SQL Server 2022 CU25 updates
Supports latest GDR updates for SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022
gp3 volumes now reach 64 TiB, 80,000 IOPS and 2,000 MiB/s throughput
Memory-optimized X2m instances with up to 64 vCPUs and 4 TB memoryGA
TCO assessment for migrating on-premises SQL Server to RDS for SQL ServerGA
May 20265
Supports latest GDR updates for SQL Server 2019 and 2022, fixing two CVEs
Supports M8a and R8a instances on 5th Gen AMD EPYC, up to 70% higher throughput
Supports M8i and R8i instances on Intel Xeon 6, up to 15% better price-performance
Same-region and cross-region read replicas for instances with additional storage volumes