Unable to 'Enable Enterprise Geodatabase'

[ThomasPuthusserry]

Hi I am trying to 'Enable Enterprise Geodatabase' functionality for a database hosted in the Amazon RDS (SQL Server Express Edition 13.00.2164.0.v1). I followed the steps explained here (Create a geodatabase on Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server—ArcGIS Enterprise on AWS |... ) but there is no success. Is this because my RDS instance is Express and not a standard SQL Server edition ?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks Thomas 

[JayantaPoddar]

Try this

Create a desktop or workgroup geodatabase—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

 Connect to a desktop or workgroup geodatabase—Help | ArcGIS Desktop 

[ThomasPuthusserry]

Hi Jayanta

To clarify: I am using an AWS SQL Express instance as the database which I can connect using ArcCatalog and store non-spatial tables. I would like to make that database into 'geodatabase' so that I can store spatial data and that is where the process is failing. 

[Asrujit_SenGupta]

What issues are you facing while following the steps?

What is the error message?

[ThomasPuthusserry · Accepted solution]

Solved:

I found out that the process work if I use a different keycode file (although the keycode initially used was from a similar server advanced licence). Thanks all for your suggestions.