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.

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 ...

AWS offers different paths and tools for your migration journey, such as the AWS SCT, AWS DMS, and Professional Services, which make conversions to PostgreSQL easier, and Babelfish, which allows ...

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 ...

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

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) unveiled a new Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition offering for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2.) A blog post authored by exec Jeff Barr yesterday said the new ...

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, ...

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 ...