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.

You can use Amazon S3 or Amazon Snowball to move your exports to the cloud, where Amazon Redshift can ... converting Oracle and SQL Server functions to their equivalent AWS service.

In a separate MCG benchmark report, Actian Vector performs up to nearly 10X faster than Microsoft SQL Server ... Actian Vector vs. AWS Redshift – The benchmark test shows that Actian Vector ...

AWS also announced Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, a new capability for Amazon Aurora that allows customers to run SQL Server applications directly on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with little to no ...

In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2. The study compares ...

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, ...

At the risk of oversimplification, AWS has two EC2 storage options that are normally used for SQL Server databases: Instance Store and Elastic Block Storage. Instance Store is a form of ephemeral ...

At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, ...

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. It allows users to analyze large amounts of data using SQL queries and BI tools to gain insights. Major AWS ...