Updated on 2024-07-01 GMT+08:00

RDS for SQL Server Versioning Policy

RDS for SQL Server is reliable, secure, scalable, inexpensive, and easy to manage. It features high availability, data security, failover in seconds, and flexible backup. This section describes the versioning policy of RDS for SQL Server.

Table 1 Version lifecycle

Version

Status

Released by Huawei Cloud

EOM

EOS

SQL Server 2022

Commercial use

June 2023

December 2028

December 2033

SQL Server 2019

Commercial use

December 2021

December 2033

December 2035

SQL Server 2017

Commercial use

May 2020

December 2030

December 2032

SQL Server 2016

Commercial use

January 2018

December 2029

December 2031

SQL Server 2014

Commercial use

January 2018

December 2027

December 2029

SQL Server 2012

Commercial use

January 2018

December 2025

December 2027

SQL Server 2008 R2

Discontinued

January 2018

July 2021

December 2025

The versioning policy of RDS for SQL Server follows the Microsoft lifecycle policy. For details, click here. If Microsoft stops maintaining a version, RDS for SQL Server will also gradually stop providing support for it.