Move RDS databases around from development and staging environments without access to RDS file system. Integrate RDS Deploy into your DevOps tools, such as Jenkins and GO, to further automate DLM and achieve true one-click deployments.
Sample DevOps Scenario involving Jenkins and RDS: The job is to deploy 3 SQL Server databases from RDS to a standard SQL Server. Merge data from two of them into the third. Send the third database back to RDS as the new production system. The job will also flush any open sessions to the website, take it offline and put it back online when everything is finished. This is all done in a PowerShell script which is executed from Jenkins so that it can be performed by employees with minimal security access (only have access to that job) and all history is recorded. To see the implementation of this sample DLM scenario and to learn more about the product, visit http://cloudbasic.net/aws/rds/devops-dlm

"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."