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

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 ...

AWS revenues grew about 69% between Q4 2015 and the year-ago quarter, going from $1.42 billion to $2.41 billion. AWS is also profitable, and profits nearly tripled, from $240 million to $687 million.

Now that pricing metrics for Microsoft's Azure Stack can be compared to VMware Cloud on AWS, potential customers will likely revisit their initial assumptions. Enterprise customers will now be ...

This is intriguing for SQL Server folks who wanted to migrate to AWS RDS and Azure SQL DB, but couldn't because they wanted OS access, CLR, >100 databases per server, etc.

PROS: Microsoft came late to the cloud market (in fact, four years after AWS) but gave itself a jump start by taking its popular on-premises business software–Windows Server, Office, SQL Server ...

In the end, IT professionals generally agree that Azure or AWS are both great choices for IaaS providers. Now it’s up to you to figure out which works best for your organisation. Editor’s note: The ...