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.

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