Amazon EC2 running Amazon Linux 2 LTS Candidate 2 provides a dependable environment for deploying applications using Microsoft SQL Server. The AMI also comes pre-installed with .NET Core 2.0, PowerShell 6 and the AWS .NET SDK to run your .NET Core applications. By running SQL Server 2017 with Amazon Linux 2 LTS Candidate 2 on EC2, you can leverage the cost effectiveness, scalability and flexibility of Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 running SQL Server on Amazon Linux 2 LTS Candidate 2 provides seamless integration with existing Amazon EC2 features including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic-Load Balancing, and Elastic IPs.

After provisioning, please run $sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf set-sa-password to set the 'sa' password.