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This Quick Start deployment guide provides step-by-step instructions for deploying SQL Server on the AWS Cloud, using http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/[AWS CloudFormation] templates and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/automation-documents.html[AWS Systems Manager Automation documents] that automate the deployment.

This Quick Start is for IT infrastructure architects, administrators, and DevOps professionals who are planning to implement or extend their Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and SQL Server workloads on AWS.