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I have a AWS EC2 instance, specifically a t3.2xlarge, that has windows server 2019 and SQL Server 2016 Standard installed(license came from the instances, through AWS), I'd like to upgrade my server to SQL Server 2019. When I download and run SQL Server 2019 I'm prompted for a product key to upgrade my instance:

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The product key is not pre-populated with the key of the original instance(2016). How do I locate the product key/upgrade SQL Server for a AWS EC2 instance?

You can google around for a number of solutions on this, the one I've attempted is this using these suggestions(doesn't work), this(doesn't work for 2016), and this(not a answer). Am I the first person trying to do a in place SQL server upgrade on a AWS server? The AWS interface it beyond unhelpful, the only article I find on this is RDS, not applicable to EC2's.

David Rogers
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  • Two thoughts 1) Create a new server with SQL2019 and do an export / import 2) Try this method https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/aws-systems-manager-automation-supports-upgrade-sql-server/ – Tim Jan 22 '22 at 07:30

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