At the risk of oversimplification, AWS has two EC2 storage options that are normally used for SQL Server databases: ... This is SQL Server’s more robust HA/DR offering, ...

SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) had up to 86.8 percent better price-performance when comparing Azure Hybrid Benefit to AWS License Mobility for three-year compute commitment, and ...

Research firm GigaOm compared throughput performance between SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and SQL Server on AWS EC2, finding the former enjoyed a definite speed edge. "Azure emerged as the ...

You manage everything — patching, backups, security hardening, HA, etc. Not a PaaS offering — so no built-in scalability or auto-failover unless you build it. More overhead if you're just trying to ...

Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) indicated 3.4x better performance on Windows over Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2).

Monitoring is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. In this post, we discuss how to use an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard to ...

SQL Server’s other HA/DR feature, Always On Availability Groups, is a more robust solution capable of providing rapid recoveries with no data loss. Among its other advantages are inclusion in SQL ...