--- title: "Amazon RDS for SQL Server - Air Market" description: "You have a SQL Server database running on Amazon RDS and something will not connect to it - your tool, your app, your laptop. This walks through why, covering login failures, Windows authentication t…" canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/rds-sqlserver" --- [Air Market](/) / [Data & Analytics](/category/data) / Amazon RDS for SQL Server Skill by [Amazon Web Services](/@aws) # Amazon RDS for SQL Server When your SQL Server database on AWS refuses the connection ## What this does You have a SQL Server database running on Amazon RDS and something will not connect to it - your tool, your app, your laptop. This walks through why, covering login failures, Windows authentication trouble, and the settings each language's database driver needs. Reach for it when the connection error message means nothing to you. ### Top 3 things it does for you - Figure out why a connection times out or gets refused - Sort out Windows authentication problems - Connect from your own app code in Python, .NET, Java or Node ## Information **Amazon RDS for SQL Server at a glance** | | | | --- | --- | | Kind | Skill | | Publisher | [Amazon Web Services](/@aws) | | Category | [Data & Analytics](/category/data) | | Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents | | Version | 1 | | Size | 123 KB | | Licence | Apache-2.0 | | Repository | [aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws](https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/74e317a6ee4221204c917770e3aaec9558a81778/skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/rds-sqlserver) | | GitHub stars | 2,420 (as of Nov 2026) | | Installs | 5,064, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) | ## Security report **Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Amazon RDS for SQL Server and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**. **What Amazon RDS for SQL Server's check was run against** | | | | --- | --- | | Commit | 74e317a6ee4221204c917770e3aaec9558a81778 | | Content hash | 2f57dbee3bc969069b55605654bc672fd924600d02cc63a3b015344f3405d8b1 | | Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/blob/74e317a6ee4221204c917770e3aaec9558a81778/skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/rds-sqlserver/SKILL.md) | A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned. [Read the full security report for Amazon RDS for SQL Server](/security/rds-sqlserver) ## About Amazon RDS for SQL Server A guide to connecting to Amazon RDS for SQL Server, authenticating against it, and working out what went wrong when either fails. It covers the recurring frustrations: a client that times out from an EC2 instance, Windows authentication that will not produce a context, an authentication scheme that comes back as the wrong one, a login that is simply refused. Connection details are covered per language, for Python, .NET, Java and Node.js clients, along with the driver settings each one expects. It also covers reaching the database through a tunnel from your own machine, the security group and port side of things, Kerberos naming and directory setup, IAM authentication through RDS Proxy, and credential handling from Secrets Manager. It applies across deployment shapes as well - VPC, ECS, EKS and Lambda - so the advice matches where your code is actually running. ## What's inside - SKILL.md - instructions - references/ad-kerberos.md - reference - references/connection-auth.md - reference - references/dotnet.md - reference - references/ec2-vpc.md - reference - references/ecs-fargate-vpc.md - reference - references/encryption.md - reference - references/java.md - reference - references/lambda-vpc.md - reference - references/networking.md - reference - references/nodejs.md - reference - references/python.md - reference - references/rds-proxy.md - reference - references/ssm-tunneling.md - reference - references/troubleshooting.md - reference ## Questions ### Is Amazon RDS for SQL Server safe to install? AIR scanned this exact version of Amazon RDS for SQL Server and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 74e317a6ee42, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/rds-sqlserver. ### How do I install Amazon RDS for SQL Server? Open https://airmarket.ai/app/rds-sqlserver on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/74e317a6ee4221204c917770e3aaec9558a81778/skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/rds-sqlserver. Install from that link, not the branch. ## Related on Air Market - [More Data & Analytics listings](/category/data) - [Everything by Amazon Web Services](/@aws) --- Canonical URL: