Intel lands AWS deal for custom Xeon 6 chips, highlighting continuing competition with AMD and ARM in hyperscale cloud ...

AWS today announced a new database product that is clearly meant to go after Microsoft’s SQL Server and make it easier — and cheaper — for SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud.

Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types Amazon Web Services has revealed it’s started running some custom cuts of Intel’s Xeon 6 ...

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server relies on AWS-supplied licenses and currently supports SQL Server 2019 Enterprise, Standard, and Web editions. The service is now available in a subset of regions ...

SQL Server 2012 reached End of Support in 2022 after being a mainstay for many SMBs over the past decade. Continuing to run this SQL Server version, especially on mission-critical production systems, ...

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 ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

The AWS Mexico server region, which AWS first announced last February, is the company’s third infrastructure project in the country after smaller efforts in 2020 and 2023.