For instance, while prices for Azure and AWS are generally similar, Microsoft’s Azure Hybrid Benefit has made Windows Server and SQL Server workloads far more affordable to run on Azure ...

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 ...

AWS estimates half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate away ... its intellectual property for Windows Server and SQL Server available to Amazon and Google ...

as well as deployment alternatives include Azure SQL Edge, on-premises SQL Server, containerized SQL for Linux and Kubernetes, SQL Server on Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Oracle ...

AWS is the largest ... Focusing on virtual server list prices, in the UK, on-demand prices for a low-end Azure Bs-Series B1LS VM running Ubuntu Linux with 1 vCPU, 0.5 GiB RAM and 4GiB temporary ...