title: SQL Server Reporting Services for Amazon RDS
body: <p>Recently, we have migrated a business application database to Amazon AWS SQL Server RDS.  We have loved the flexibility of backup and scaling with the cloudified database, but we have need for writing reports for our gathered analytics data.  Our in house data analyst is most comfortable using SQL Reporting Services.  Normally, this is installed as a component with the SQL Server install, but we obviously do not have that option on RDS.</p>
  
  <p>My question is, <strong>has anyone been able to successfully deploy and use SQL Reporting services with Amazon RDS?</strong></p>
  
  <p>What I have tried:</p>
  
  <p>I attempted to spin up another EC2 instance, install "SQL Server Express with Advanced Services", and point SSRS to RDS, but it said that I had incompatible license types.</p>
  
  <p>I plan on contacting the AWS team directly for this as well, but I thought that I would reach out to SO first to see if anyone has run into this.  Thanks.</p>