The CloudCheckr Security and Cost Management platform features powerful cost allocation, spend optimization, and resource utilization solutions. It does so by providing advanced RI recommendations for Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache reserved nodes. Allowing you to deliver a scalable but cost effective AWS solution.

Continuous monitoring across your entire AWS environment delivers critical audit tools to help fulfill PCI, HIPAA, FISMA Moderate, NIST 800-53, and other major compliance frameworks. Plus, teams are able to effectively monitor resources, locations, users and history, and demonstrate compliance to stakeholders via full audit trails.

This Cloud Management Platform (CMP) delivers additional security tools through best-in-class AWS CloudTrail support, security group and permission mapping, perimeter assessments, complete audit logs, and hundreds of prepackaged security alerts. CloudCheckr provides automated log documentation, unified analytics, and proactive risk identification. All of these features are designed to provide you with the confidence that your cloud is stable, secure, and compliant.

"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 deployment 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."