Disable Amazon EC2 High Availability for SQL Server - Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2

Disable Amazon EC2 High Availability for SQL Server

You can disable Amazon EC2 High Availability for SQL Server (SQL HA). Note only instances enabled by SQL HA can receive the SQL Server license savings. Use one of the following methods to disable SQL HA for your instances:

Console

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation panel, choose Instances.

  3. Select the instances in the High Availability deployment to enable SQL HA standby detection monitoring, choose Actions, Instance settings, Modify SQL High Availability settings.

  4. In the Review prerequisites step, choose Next. The prerequisites only apply for enabling the monitoring, and it is not necessary to review them for disabling SQL HA standby detection monitoring.

  5. In the Manage SQL High Availability license savings step, for each instance to disable, for SQL High Availability license savings, select None.

  6. Choose Next.

  7. In the Review and apply changes step, review the configuration and then choose Apply changes.

AWS CLI

Use the disable-instance-sql-ha-standby-detections command. For instance-ids, specify the IDs of the instances to disable.

aws ec2 disable-instance-sql-ha-standby-detections \
--instance-ids instance_ids