Azure tops Amazon Web Services in price-performance for SQL workloads. GigaOm tested SQL Server performance on two cloud offerings: SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2). Read this report to see how Azure Virtual Machines outperforms AWS EC2 in terms of:
- Speed—SQL Server performed up to 3.6 times faster on Azure Virtual Machines than on AWS EC2.
- Price per performance—SQL Server had up to 84 percent lower price-performance on Azure Virtual Machines.
In addition to outperforming Amazon Web Services (AWS), SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines offers unique built-in security and manageability features.
Migrate SQL Server databases—without any impact to your company’s apps—to the fully managed Azure SQL Database. Or, run SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.