Cloud provider sql server image

As explained in 100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

A cloud provider SQL Server image is a provider-maintained virtual machine image with SQL Server preinstalled and licensing integration enabled.

A cloud provider SQL Server image makes VM deployment easy and can activate license-included billing, but using it unchanged is a mistake. Provider images optimize for broad convenience, not a carefully governed SQL Server installation. section 8.10

Mistake: treating the provider image as a finished production configuration.

• AWS SQL Server AMIs install every SQL Server feature, including SSMS, even though SSMS is better suited to client machines. section 8.10
• Azure SQL Server images install all features and tools and configure trace flags 1117 and 1118, which may conflict with deliberate configuration standards. section 8.10
• Use the image when license-included pricing is required, then remove unnecessary features and apply configuration management rather than accepting defaults. section 8.10

Figure 8.4 Fresh EC2 instance with SQL Server AMI

Inspect the freshly created AWS EC2 instance to see the broad feature installation produced by the SQL Server AMI. section 8.10

Figure 8.5 Freshly built Azure VM with SQL Server image

Inspect the Azure VM to see installed services and startup parameters, including configured trace flags. section 8.10

How 100 SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them covers it

How deep it goes

Contrasts convenient defaults with feature minimization and configuration management, but stops short of detailed customization commands.

Examples

Shows fresh AWS EC2 and Azure VM deployments with broad feature installations and Azure trace flags.

What it assumes

Assumes familiarity with SQL Server installation choices, client tools, configuration management, and trace flags.

What you can do after

Operate/configure a provider image by retaining licensing benefits while reviewing features, tools, and startup parameters.

How it connects

Connects SQL Server installation with configuration management, SSMS, SQL Server features, and trace flags.

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Related concepts

• license-included modelused by · A license-included model is a software pricing model in which the SQL Server license cost is included in the virtual machine's usage rate.
• custom imagealternative to · A custom image is a user-created virtual machine image containing a configured operating-system and application state for repeatable deployment.
• driftproduces · Drift is a change over time in a system’s behavior, state, data, or configuration relative to a reference or expected baseline.

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