Amazon EC2 Instance Store vs. EBS At the risk of oversimplification, AWS has two EC2 storage options that are normally used for SQL Server databases: Instance Store and Elastic Block Storage.

In these cases, SANless software can be used to deploy a SQL Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) to provide high availability failover for the entire SQL instance, even across different subnets, using ...

Warnings Information in this article applies to Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The instructions for earlier versions of SQL Server, including versions 2008 and 2005, are similar.