Amazon's AWS has reported higher revenue and operating income for Q1 2025 than Microsoft's entire Intelligent Cloud segment.

The upshot, they claim, is that customers face the devil's choice of migrating to Azure, or paying many times more to run their Windows and SQL Server-based apps on AWS or Google's cloud platform. The ...

SQL Server on Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Weakness: Pricing is an extremely frequent complaint, Gartner said. Complex pricing models spanning ...

Before joining AWS in 2016 he worked at Microsoft for 17 years in various leadership roles, including managing the company’s SQL Server database product and Azure cloud data services.