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Nayan Ambaliya
Nayan Ambaliya

Reputation: 31

Change AWS windows machine

Currently I have got an AWS EC2 windows server machine along with SQL Server Web Edition. In order to reduce costs, I want to get rid of SQL server web edition and put express edition on the same machine.

Can I do it? I was thinking of uninstalling web edition and then installing express edition on the same server. Will this suffice?

Any insights would be highly appreciated. P.S. I do not have support plan with AWS, and that is why I am writing here on Stackoverflow.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 205

Answers (1)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 269971

No.

The price for the instance is determined by the AMI that was used when launching the instance. Even if you uninstall SQL Server, you will still be charged the same hourly charge.

You will need to launch a new instance with the desired version. You'll also need to migrate the data and any other software you have installed on the instance.

It's probably a good time to consider using Amazon RDS, which is a fully-managed database service that can keep the database separate from your other sofware.

Upvotes: 1

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