McAfee Public Cloud Server Security Suite (PCS) delivers comprehensive security for Amazon EC2. McAfee PCS discovers Amazon EC2 usage, and deploys protection designed for an elastic cloud environment. Amazon EC2 instances can now be protected from advanced malware, remote exploits and data theft. With the McAfee PCS suite, Windows and Linux instances can be protected using: Anti-Virus, Host Firewall, Intrusion Prevention, Application Control, File Integrity Monitoring and Encryption Management of EBS volumes. Security policies are managed centrally using McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), a versatile central console with powerful reporting, alerting and policy management. Along with these salient features, latest McAfee PCS offers improved visibility and control to address the unique requirements of public cloud security. It detects and imports virtual instances, security groups, and virtual networks to the McAfee ePO server.

Please note: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 are reaching end of support on October 10th 2023. These images will be removed from AWS Marketplace by October 10th, and you will no longer be able to access license included AMIs provided by Amazon after this date. Custom AMIs you own and active EC2 instances will not be impacted, but we recommend upgrading your current workloads. Please review the end of support FAQ here: https://aws.amazon.com/windows/faq/#eos-microsoft-products. "The SQL Server Amazon Machine Images (AMI) is built, updated, and fully-patched by AWS within five business days of Microsoft's patch Tuesday (the second Tuesday of each month). Launching an instance from this AMI enables you to run the instance as a database server and saves you the effort to install SQL Server software. This AMI comes with following software and drivers including AWS Systems Manager, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell, Network drivers, and Storage drivers.

You can use AWS Launch Wizard to easily size, configure, and deploy SQL Server applications on AWS. Launch Wizard for SQL Server supports both single instance and high availability deployments according to AWS and SQL Server best practices."