Amazon EC2 Instance Store vs. EBS At the risk of oversimplification, AWS has two EC2 storage options that are normally used for SQL Server databases: Instance Store and Elastic Block Storage.

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 ...

Perhaps a bit of an esoteric problem but... I have a SQL Server 2008 instance on EC2 (running on 2008 R2) under heavy load. I'm trying to optimize I/O ...