Provides connectivity, authentication, and troubleshooting guidance for Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Applicable when users ask about SSMS times out connecting from EC2, Cannot generate SSPI context with Windows auth, connect RDS SQL Server from Lambda with pymssql, auth_scheme shows NTLM instead of KERBEROS on ECS Fargate, SSM tunnel to RDS SQL Server from laptop, port 1433 security group…
Install
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill rds-sqlservernpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill rds-sqlserver -a claude-code -gnpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill rds-sqlserver -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.git --path skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/rds-sqlservergh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws rds-sqlservergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/rds-sqlserver ~/.claude/skills/rds-sqlserver # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/aws__agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/database-skills/rds-sqlserver ~/.agents/skills/rds-sqlserver # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode