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Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025, enabling AI integration, a new free edition, and native vector data types

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 for Enterprise, Standard, and Developer editions. SQL Server 2025 integrates AI directly into the database engine, allowing customers to invoke external REST endpoints from T-SQL without additional middleware. This enables secure integration of existing database workloads with AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon S3, and AWS Lambda, without re-architecting applications. SQL Server 2025 introduces a new free edition for development and testing (Standard Developer Edition), significant capacity increases for Standard Edition up to 32 cores and 256 GB buffer pool memory, and Resource Governor previously exclusive to Enterprise Edition. It also introduces a native vector data type for storing and querying vector embeddings directly within the database. Customers running earlier SQL Server versions on RDS can upgrade to SQL Server 2025 by modifying the DB engine version, and customers running SQL Server on-premises can migrate to take advantage of these capabilities with fully managed infrastructure

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