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 ...

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2.

The service is currently in preview for SQL Databases from version 2012 and up, SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

AWS follows a pay-as-you-go scheme and charges per hour; Azure also follows the pay-as-you-go model and charges per minute, which provides a more accurate pricing model. Computing ...

The appeal of cost savings in moving SQL server farms to the cloud as part of this modernization cannot be overstated. Cloud giants like Azure, AWS, GCP and Snowflake offer attractive pricing ...